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[Kenichi Handa]

Joseph Patterson <joseph@jeffnet.ne.mediaone.net> writes:
> When I run "emacs -fn oct" where emacs is a version 21.1 and oct is a
> custom font from the included gzipped tar file custom.tar.gz, I find
> very strange behavior.  The oct font is a large and bold style font.
> The oct font is used by emacs for the File Edit etc menus at the top,
> but it is treated as an illegal font for the purposes of the window
> buffer contents.  The windows default to some proportional font that
> is unusable.

> When I run "emacs -fn oct" where emacs is a version 20.7 and oct is
> the same as above, all works well and the oct font is used in all
> windows.

> I thought that perhaps this was caused by my creating a font that
> didn't follow all the conventions in font design.  But now I have
> reason to think otherwise and suspect emacs-21.1 to need a fix.

Could you please send me the bdf file of that oct font?

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@etl.go.jp