Re: fonts in emacs under OS X

[Kevin Rodgers]

James Hughes wrote:

> I'm having problems understanding fonts under OS X. Mostly, I just don't
> know what the hell I'm doing. I don't really understand the X11 naming
> convention for fonts.
>
> All of the docs say use this format:
> -maker-family-weight-slant-widthtype-style-pixels-height-horiz-vert-spacing-
> width-charset
>
> But, then as an example they use:
> -*-Monaco-*-100-*
> or
> -apple-monaco-*-9-*-mac-roman
>
> which works... but doesn't follow the above format. I'm sure there's some
> kind of shortcut notation going on here if someone could please explain?


Right.  I prefer to specify each "-" so that I'm sure I know which parts I'm
specifying and which I'm wild-carding.

But you can think of the fully specified font names as file names, and the font
spec as a shell file name (globbing) pattern.  Then a single "*" can match any
substring of the fully specified name, including multiple parts with their "-"
"-" separators.

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Kevin Rodgers