Re: Probelm starting emacs snapshot - "Font `lucidasanstypewriter-10' is not defined"

[Rainer M Krug]

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On 20/06/12 15:57, Peter Dyballa wrote:
> 
> Am 20.06.2012 um 11:49 schrieb Rainer M Krug:
> 
>> My question is: why does emacs-snapshot need lucida, and emacs 23 not? Or 
>> did it just ignore
>> the missing font? And: How can I install the font on Ubuntu Precise?
> 
> GNU Emacs never needs a particular font. It can work (display) with whatever 
> it finds on the
> system. And if it does not find anything suitable, then it uses empty boxes. 
> It is possible
> that the different "releases" were differently packaged and therefore used 
> different init
> files, maybe also different X resources. If this is not documented, then you 
> can check the
> contents of the packages and answer your questions (I can't, because I don't 
> use Ubuntu at the
> moment and I don't want to install it in the near future in a virtual 
> instance.)
> 
> Before you install anything you should remember that you have two services 
> that provide fonts
> for X clients: on the X server side you have the old system that used 'xset 
> fp ...' and
> xlsfonts/xfontsel/xfd and font names in the XLFD (X11 Logical Font 
> Description) format, and on
> the "user side" you have libfontconfig with fc-cache/fc-match/fc-list and 
> configuration files
> like (/etc/)fonts.conf or ~/.fonts.conf.
> 
> When your GNU Emacs executable uses libfontconfig you can use libfontconfig 
> names to name the
> font(s) you want to use. When your GNU Emacs executable uses libotf you can 
> even use OTF
> fonts.
> 
> In any case you have to set up your font services accordingly. I take my 
> Lucida Sans Typewriter
> fonts off Java. Off your TeX installation you can use for example Latin 
> Modern Mono, as found
> in files named lmmono*.otf. (I use them in the NS/NextSTEP/Cocoa variant of 
> GNU Emacs.) There
> is also UM Typewriter, UMTypewriter-*.otf.

OK - as I can start it with the -Q option, I will gothrough my .emacs file and 
see which part
actually causes the problem.

Cheers,

Rainer


> 
> -- Mit friedvollen Grüßen
> 
> Pete
> 
> There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're 
> talking about. – John
> von Neumann
> 
> 
> 


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