Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> writes: > On 2010-07-13, 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? > > No. I did rebuild emacs with xft support, but I had already manually > done the "customize-face" for "variable-pitch", so I don't know if xft > support would have fixed the problem or not (I imagine it probably > would have, since that's what the lisp code in faces.el seems to > imply).
Good. Life will be better now that you have xft support. :-) allan
