Re: font missing

[John P. Burkett]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 11.06.2009 um 04:16 schrieb John P. Burkett:
> 
>> Suggestions for recovering the old "10x20" font would be appreciated.
> 
> 
> The fonts in the fonts menu are set in GNU Emacs' source code – since
> decades (presumingly).
> 
> It is possible that your Gentoo PC still has these first generation
> bitmap fonts and it's just that these are not made available because the
> "font path" value is so short ('xset q' will show it), which you can
> change, for example in ~/.xinitrc. First step should be to determine
> where this font resides (file name might be
> share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz for an ISO 8859-15 or Latin 9
> 8-bit encoding, or fonts/cyrillic/koi10x20.pcf.gz for some Cyrillic
> encoding, so a 'locate 10x20' should list the files).

Doing "locate 10x20" generates the following response:

/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-alt-iso8859-15-10x20-bold.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-alt-iso8859-15-10x20.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-alt-iso8859-9-10x20-bold.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-iso8859-2-10x20-bold.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-alt-iso8859-1-10x20-bold.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-alt-iso8859-2-10x20.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-iso8859-2-10x20.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-iso8859-9-10x20-bold.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-iso8859-15-10x20.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-iso8859-15-10x20-bold.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-alt-iso8859-9-10x20.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-iso8859-9-10x20.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-alt-iso8859-1-10x20.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-iso8859-1-10x20.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-iso8859-1-10x20-bold.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/jmk/neep-alt-iso8859-2-10x20-bold.pcf.gz
/usr/share/fonts/cronyx/misc/koi10x20.pcf.gz

I'm not sure how to ask emacs to use any of those fonts.

 And, of course, it
> would be fine to find out whether the X server delivers the fonts or the
> client side, libfontconfig with programmes like fc-list or fc-cache and
> configuration files like fonts.conf, is doing the job.
> 
> In GNU Emacs you should be able to list all the fonts it sees in a
> volatile *Completions* buffer with:
> 
>     M-x set-frame-font RET TAB TAB
> 
> (It's best to imagine a file name for the volatile *Completions* buffer
> first and save it at once under this name.)

Toward the bottom of the Completions buffer, I see "10x20". Clicking on
it with the left mouse button produces the message "Font `10x20` is not
defined".

What should I try next?

Best regards,
John


> 
> -- 
> Greetings
> 
>   Pete
> 
> If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.
> 
> 
> 
> 


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John P. Burkett
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University of Rhode Island
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