Re: Better fonts on Linux with emacs22?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 14.12.2007 um 16:54 schrieb John Wells:

> $ emacs22  --font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10"
>
> But all I get is:
>
> No fonts match `Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10'


GNU Emacs 22 is not prepared to use font names à la libfontconfig  
(Unicode Emacs 23.0.0 or 23.0.60 from CVS allows so).

xlsfonts -fn '-*-bitstream vera sans*' (or '-*-monospace*') can list  
what your system offers. Then use such a font name. The xfontsel  
application can also find you font names.

The X Logical Font Description (XLFD) conventions allow to substitute  
elements with the '*' wildcard character.

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  Pete

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