Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> writes: > On 2010-07-12, Allan Gottlieb <gottl...@nyu.edu> wrote: > >> 2. The name you give "Sans-normal-normal-normal-*-20-*-75-75-*-0-iso10646-1" >> looks to be just the suffix did you mean something like >> "-unknown-DejaVu Sans-normal...". You don't need to have DejaVu, >> but I would advise getting either DejaVu or bitstream vera. > > OK, I've figured out that I do have both dejavu and bitstream vera > fonts installed (but they weren't on the font path). Now "DejaVu > Sans" does work. The problem is that emacs wants a font with a family > name of "Sans Serif", and none of the installed fonts provide a family > with that name.
That is funny since I don't do anything and it just works (DejaVu is a family I think). Indeed my default font is DejaVu Sans Mono. The last "u" above gives the output below for C-U C-x = Did you build emacs with xft support? allan character: u (117, #o165, #x75) preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV)) code point: 0x75 syntax: w which means: word category: .:Base, a:ASCII, l:Latin, r:Roman buffer code: #x75 file code: #x75 (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs) display: by this font (glyph code) xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans Mono-bold-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x58) Character code properties: customize what to show name: LATIN SMALL LETTER U general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase) There is an overlay here: From 1234 to 1240 evaporate t face flyspell-duplicate flyspell-overlay t help-echo "mouse-2: correct word at point" keymap [Show] mouse-face highlight There are text properties here: fontified t