Re: emacs and fallback fonts

[Francesco Mazzoli]

On 18/03/12 15:35, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Am 18.3.2012 um 02:22 schrieb Francesco Mazzoli:
>
> > I am trying to get emacs to fallback nicely when my font of choice (Terminus) 
> > doesn't have a symbol.
>
> Do you know of any X11 application that can perform what you wish? How is it 
> when look with vi(m), pico, nano from xterm with Terminus at the same places of 
> the same file? How is the font selection working here? How are Open/LibreOffice 
> performing?

Well the current situation is that DejaVu Sans Mono is used as a 
fallback in all the applications. The problem is that Terminus-12 is 
smaller than DejaVu Sans Mono-12, so emacs squashes the bigger 
characters resulting in illegible characters.

I tried configuring fontconfig like so, to have DejaVu Sans Mono to be 
smaller:

<match target="pattern">
  <test name="family">
    <string>Terminus</string>
  </test>
  <edit binding="strong" mode="append" name="family">
    <string>DejaVu Sans Mono</string>
  </edit>
  <edit binding="strong" mode="append" name="size">
    10
  </edit>
</match>

But it doesn't seem to work, and I wasn't able to find a suitable 
configuration, so I was looking for an emacs-specific solution...

Francesco.