Re: Using Emacs 22 Courier font in Emacs 23?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 15.08.2009 um 16:08 schrieb Nicolas:

> Any idea?

Maybe it has to do with the way GNU Emacs receives the fonts. In X11  
you have two options: either (X11) server side or (libfontconfig)  
client side. This can make, no: this does regularly make a  
difference! I don't these between the two Emacsen (I can use GNU  
Emacs 21.3.50, i.e. pre-22.x, 22.x, and many 23.0.x and 23.1.50, the  
latter ones all from CVS), because I am using fontsets and I am  
using ]initial|default}-frame-alist:

        (setq initial-frame-alist
                ...
               '(font . "fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter")
                ...)

This fontset is defined as this:

    (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium- 
r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter" t 'noerror)
        (set-fontset-font  
"fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"       'latin-iso8859-1   
'("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-1"))
        (set-fontset-font  
"fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"       'latin-iso8859-2   
'("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-2"))         (set-fontset-font  
"fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"       'latin-iso8859-3   
'("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-3"))
        (set-fontset-font  
"fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"       'latin-iso8859-4   
'("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-4"))
        (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"     
'cyrillic-iso8859-5  '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-5"))
        (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"       
'hebrew-iso8859-8  '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-8"))
        (set-fontset-font  
"fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"       'latin-iso8859-9   
'("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-9"))
        (set-fontset-font  
"fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"       'latin-iso8859-14  
'("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-14"))
        (set-fontset-font  
"fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"       'latin-iso8859-15  
'("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-15"))
        (set-fontset-font  
"fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"            'thai-tis620  
'("lucidatypewriter" . "iso10646-1"))
;       (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"    
'georgian-ps '("bpg glaho arial" . "iso10646-1"))
        (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"  
'mule-unicode-0100-24ff '("code2000" . "iso10646-1"))        (set- 
fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter" 'mule- 
unicode-2500-33ff '("code2000" . "iso10646-1"))
        (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter"  
'mule-unicode-e000-ffff '("code2000" . "iso10646-1"))

You see that I am using (most probably) X11. But I can be wrong here.  
Trying to use libfontconfig seems to fail, most probably because on  
my old Mac OS X system the wrong libraries of libfontconfig are used  
(it's compilation issue I should solve in the next few years, or  
months).


Can you make tests with X11 and libfontconfig font names? Can you  
also make tests with using the above mentioned *-frame-alist's?  
(Initial is the first frame, default is every other new one.)

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Greetings

  Pete

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