Re: [h-e-w] Emacs gets font wrong at start up

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Sat, 27 Jun 2015 10:19:50 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:10:09 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: Drew Adams <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> > 
> > > > But emacs does the font if I manually select it from the Set Font
> > > > menu as described above.
> > > 
> > > Yes, it does.  But that only makes it the default font for the text
> > > in the buffer in which you choose it.  Using that as the default for
> > > the entire frame, not just for buffer text, is something that requires a
> > > higher-quality font.
> > 
> > I didn't know that.
> 
> You didn't know what exactly?
> 
> > Why does a frame need a better (default) font than a buffer?
> > Just what does a frame require in this regard?
> 
> The bold variant, for starters, because we show the buffer name in
> bold on the mode line.

Btw, there could easily be another problem here, with the font's name:
it includes the "-8" part, which Emacs might try to interpret.

Like I said: it's a bad font.  Don't use it.