Re: ugly wide fonts started appearing

[Chris Moore]

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:32 PM, Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden> wrote:
>  Can you do a describe-face on the "wide font" areas in Emacs?  I just
>  reported something similar, and the cause seems to be that the face font
>  is "nil" instead of "unspecified."

I'll show 3 of each - 3 faces that display too wide and 3 that display
properly...

wide face "border":

Face: border (sample) (customize this face)
Documentation: Basic face for the frame border under X.
Defined in `faces.el'.

        Family: unspecified
         Width: unspecified
        Height: unspecified
        Weight: unspecified
         Slant: unspecified
    Foreground: unspecified
    Background: black
     Underline: unspecified
      Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
           Box: unspecified
       Inverse: unspecified
       Stipple: unspecified
          Font: unspecified
       Fontset: unspecified
       Inherit: unspecified

wide face "button":

Face: button (sample) (customize this face)
Documentation: Default face used for buttons.
Defined in `button.el'.

        Family: unspecified
         Width: unspecified
        Height: unspecified
        Weight: unspecified
         Slant: unspecified
    Foreground: unspecified
    Background: unspecified
     Underline: t
      Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
           Box: unspecified
       Inverse: unspecified
       Stipple: unspecified
          Font: unspecified
       Fontset: unspecified
       Inherit: unspecified

wide face "default":

Face: default (sample) (customize this face)
Documentation: Basic default face.
Defined in `faces.el'.

        Family: xos4-terminus
         Width: normal
        Height: 92
        Weight: normal
         Slant: normal
    Foreground: black
    Background: white
     Underline: nil
      Overline: nil
Strike-through: nil
           Box: nil
       Inverse: nil
       Stipple: nil
          Font: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-161-72-72-c-160-iso8859-1
       Fontset: -xos4-terminus-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-startup
       Inherit: unspecified

regular face "bold":

Face: bold (sample) (customize this face)
Documentation: Basic bold face.
Defined in `faces.el'.

        Family: unspecified
         Width: unspecified
        Height: unspecified
        Weight: bold
         Slant: unspecified
    Foreground: unspecified
    Background: unspecified
     Underline: unspecified
      Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
           Box: unspecified
       Inverse: unspecified
       Stipple: unspecified
          Font: nil
       Fontset: unspecified
       Inherit: unspecified

regular face "italic":

Face: italic (sample) (customize this face)
Documentation: Basic italic face.
Defined in `faces.el'.

        Family: unspecified
         Width: unspecified
        Height: unspecified
        Weight: unspecified
         Slant: italic
    Foreground: unspecified
    Background: unspecified
     Underline: unspecified
      Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
           Box: unspecified
       Inverse: unspecified
       Stipple: unspecified
          Font: nil
       Fontset: unspecified
       Inherit: unspecified

regular face "mode-line-buffer-id":

Face: mode-line-buffer-id (sample) (customize this face)
Documentation: Face used for buffer identification parts of the mode line.
Defined in `faces.el'.

        Family: unspecified
         Width: unspecified
        Height: unspecified
        Weight: bold
         Slant: unspecified
    Foreground: unspecified
    Background: unspecified
     Underline: unspecified
      Overline: unspecified
Strike-through: unspecified
           Box: unspecified
       Inverse: unspecified
       Stipple: unspecified
          Font: nil
       Fontset: unspecified
       Inherit: unspecified

Chris.