Re: Font problems in cygwinx

2021-07-03 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-07-02 22:33, Robert McBroom wrote: On 7/2/21 5:58 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2021-07-02 15:21, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs -w32 works. If y

Re: Font problems in cygwinx

2021-07-03 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/3/2021 12:28 AM, Robert McBroom wrote: On 7/2/21 5:46 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2021 5:21 PM, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. I'm not sure what you mean by "legends in the heading".  And when you say

Re: Font problems in cygwinx

2021-07-02 Thread Robert McBroom
On 7/2/21 5:58 PM, Brian Inglis wrote: On 2021-07-02 15:21, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs -w32 works. If you were using Windows fonts in Emacs, that c

Re: Font problems in cygwinx

2021-07-02 Thread Robert McBroom
On 7/2/21 5:46 PM, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote: On 7/2/2021 5:21 PM, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. I'm not sure what you mean by "legends in the heading".  And when you say "have turned into boxes", are you saying tha

Re: Font problems in cygwinx

2021-07-02 Thread Brian Inglis
On 2021-07-02 15:21, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs -w32 works. If you were using Windows fonts in Emacs, that could be caused by Windows packages that

Re: Font problems in cygwinx

2021-07-02 Thread Ken Brown via Cygwin
On 7/2/2021 5:21 PM, mcforum wrote: The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text in buffers is normal. I'm not sure what you mean by "legends in the heading". And when you say "have turned into boxes", are you saying that the problem just recently started? Or have

Re: Font error message during Cygwin update (mostly harmless)

2016-07-11 Thread Ken Brown
On 7/11/2016 9:55 AM, Duncan Roe wrote: Hi When upgrading to current 5.2.1 Cygwin, this message appears in the window: Package: z/Perpetual zp_fontconfig_cache_1.sh exit code 1 The relevant lines in /var/log/setup.log.full appear to be: 2016/07/11 22:24:30 running: C:\cygwin64\bin\bash.e

Re: font encodings dirs ?

2016-04-18 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-04-18 04:44, Marco Atzeri wrote: I rebuilt plotutils, and now there is no postinstall script, however it seems the tekfont*.pcf fonts are not recognized by fontconfig. That is to be expected; fontconfig disables bitmap fonts by default. More importantly, plotutils does not have a depen

Re: font encodings dirs ?

2016-04-18 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 17/04/2016 21:01, Yaakov Selkowitz wrote: On 2016-04-17 13:26, Marco Atzeri wrote: Most of the postinstall font scripts are referring to /usr/share/fonts/encodings /usr/share/fonts/encodings/large "Most"? just fooled by the old postinstall files (.done) $ cat plotutils.sh.done /u

Re: font encodings dirs ?

2016-04-17 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-04-17 13:26, Marco Atzeri wrote: Most of the postinstall font scripts are referring to /usr/share/fonts/encodings /usr/share/fonts/encodings/large "Most"? $ cat plotutils.sh.done /usr/bin/rm -f /usr/share/fonts/misc/encodings.dir /usr/share/fonts/misc/fonts.{dir,scale} /usr/bin/

RE: font faq

2016-03-14 Thread Rockefeller, Harry
>-Original Message- >From: cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com [mailto:cygwin-ow...@cygwin.com] On Behalf Of >Yaakov Selkowitz >Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 10:37 AM >To: cygwin@cygwin.com >Subject: Re: font faq > >On 2016-03-14 09:54, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: >>

Re: font faq

2016-03-14 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
On 2016-03-14 09:54, Rockefeller, Harry wrote: I have had warnings and errors about fonts ever since - something changed. I'm looking at the index of Cygwin FAQ and there is not a single question matching 'font'. Where do I need to go to match up my font issue (warning or error) on a particul

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/11/2014 6:21 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Achim Gratz wrote: Both fonts you use as an example exist in multiple versions with differing UTF-8 support. If they don't have that glyph (which is likely, given the results you report), then Emacs would try to get it from another font with the sam

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Andrey Repin
Greetings, Sebastien Vauban! >>> The problem would be with Cygwin in general, then, if not limited to >>> Emacs. >>> >>> But why the same fonts (Consolas, Lucida Console) don't display the same >>> range of characters in both worlds? >> >> You seem to assume that those fonts define that particular

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Achim Gratz wrote: > Sebastien Vauban writes: >> The problem would be with Cygwin in general, then, if not limited to >> Emacs. >> >> But why the same fonts (Consolas, Lucida Console) don't display the same >> range of characters in both worlds? > > You seem to assume that those fonts define that p

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Achim Gratz
Sebastien Vauban writes: > The problem would be with Cygwin in general, then, if not limited to > Emacs. > > But why the same fonts (Consolas, Lucida Console) don't display the same > range of characters in both worlds? You seem to assume that those fonts define that particular glyph. Both fonts

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Marco Atzeri
On 10/09/2014 19:49, Ken Brown wrote: On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Hello, As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing triangle [1] coherently for the same fonts: - win32 Emacs always can di

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-11 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Hello, Ken Brown wrote: > On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: >> As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of >> Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing >> triangle coherently for the same fonts: >> >> - win32 Emacs always can display it, in

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-10 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Hello, As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing triangle [1] coherently for the same fonts: - win32 Emacs always can display it, in all fonts, - Cygwin Emacs

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-03 Thread Sebastien Vauban
Hello, Ken Brown wrote: > On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: >> As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of >> Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing >> triangle [1] coherently for the same fonts: >> >> - win32 Emacs always can display it

Re: Font support of UTF-8 chars differ between w32 Emacs and Cygwin Emacs

2014-09-03 Thread Ken Brown
On 9/3/2014 8:41 AM, Sebastien Vauban wrote: Hello, As you can see on http://screencast.com/t/XTTv9DSAC, win32 binaries of Emacs and Cygwin Emacs can't display the white right-pointing triangle [1] coherently for the same fonts: - win32 Emacs always can display it, in all fonts, - Cygwin Emac

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
Ken Brown-6 wrote: > > [This should have gone to the cygwin-xfree list. I've set the reply-to > accordingly.] > Sorry... I wasn't sure whether it was emacs or X. I reply via nabble: hope it will follow the reply-to. > This is a result of the change in the default server DPI announced in >

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Larry Hall (Cygwin)
On 4/29/2010 2:07 PM, Marc Girod wrote: I just thought I'd add my /var/log/XWin.0.log file, which contains my X startup string... The complete startup string, from /Emacs.bat, is: bash --login -c "/usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/emacs -g 90x37+150+0 -- /usr/bin/X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard" Please s

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Marc Girod
I just thought I'd add my /var/log/XWin.0.log file, which contains my X startup string... The complete startup string, from /Emacs.bat, is: bash --login -c "/usr/bin/startx /usr/bin/emacs -g 90x37+150+0 -- /usr/bin/X :0 -multiwindow -clipboard" Thanks, Marc http://old.nabble.com/file/p28403944/X

Re: Font change in Gnu emacs/X11 following upgrade

2010-04-29 Thread Ken Brown
[This should have gone to the cygwin-xfree list. I've set the reply-to accordingly.] On 4/29/2010 1:55 PM, Marc Girod wrote: Hello, I just upgraded for the first time for a few months. Starting my Gnu emacs under X11, I notice that my font (and frames) is larger than previously, by a factor

Re: font

2005-12-05 Thread Peter
day, Cary Jamison said: Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2005 14:58:41 -0700 From: Cary Jamison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: font In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew DeFaria typed: Cary Jamison wrote: I'm always surprised at how many people recommened using rxvt. I use it o

Re: font

2005-12-05 Thread Cary Jamison
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Andrew DeFaria typed: > Cary Jamison wrote: > >> I'm always surprised at how many people recommened using rxvt. I use >> it once in a while, but there's just too many things I do don't work >> right unless I'm using the regular Win32 console. Output is delayed >> until th

RE: Re: font

2005-12-02 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Andrew DeFaria wrote: > Too many things? Other than I/O (which I agree is important) > of certain Windows only programs what else does rxvt do wrong? This is getting a bit off-topic, but one thing that bothers me is "normal" resizing under Windows. I'd rather it behave like it does under X (and co

Re: font

2005-12-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Andrew DeFaria wrote: Rxvt.font1: "Lucida Console-10" Rxvt.font2: "Lucida Console-13" Rxvt.font: "Lucida Console-16" ... What do these do? font sets the default font. The others set alternate fonts like the ones you normally get on the right mouse butt

Re: font

2005-12-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Cary Jamison wrote: I'm always surprised at how many people recommened using rxvt. I use it once in a while, but there's just too many things I do don't work right unless I'm using the regular Win32 console. Output is delayed until the process exits, input is ignored, etc., etc. Too many th

RE: Re: font

2005-12-01 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Andrew DeFaria wrote: >> Rxvt.font1: "Lucida Console-10" >> Rxvt.font2: "Lucida Console-13" >> Rxvt.font: "Lucida Console-16" ... > What do these do? font sets the default font. The others set alternate fonts like the ones you normally get on the right mouse button in xterms. At least in my config

Re: font

2005-12-01 Thread Cary Jamison
In news:[EMAIL PROTECTED], Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) typed: > Chris Taylor wrote: >> Yes. Don't use the cmd-based cygwin interface. >> Use rxvt. > > Agreed. However, expect the occasional surprise when > running non-Cygwin console binaries since they won't > recognize that they are running on a te

Re: font

2005-12-01 Thread Andrew DeFaria
Williams, Gerald S (Jerry) wrote: Rxvt.font1: "Lucida Console-10" Rxvt.font2: "Lucida Console-13" Rxvt.font: "Lucida Console-16" Rxvt.font3: "Lucida Console-19" Rxvt.font4: "Lucida Console-22" Rxvt.font5: "Lucida Console-25" Rxvt.font6: "Lucida Console-28" What do these do? -- If it's zero deg

RE: font

2005-12-01 Thread Williams, Gerald S \(Jerry\)
Chris Taylor wrote: > Yes. Don't use the cmd-based cygwin interface. > Use rxvt. Agreed. However, expect the occasional surprise when running non-Cygwin console binaries since they won't recognize that they are running on a terminal. I use a Tcl-based debugger at work, and when running it in Win32

Re: font

2005-12-01 Thread Chris Taylor
Oliver Vecernik wrote: Hi, I'd like to use Courier New as font for Cygwin, but the only choices I've got are Lucida Console and Rasterschriftart. One solution is to use PuTTY to connect via ssh to localhost, but I think this is a bit of overkill. Is there another posiibility? Yes. Don't use t

Re: font

2005-12-01 Thread Brian Dessent
Oliver Vecernik wrote: > I'd like to use Courier New as font for Cygwin, but the only choices > I've got are Lucida Console and Rasterschriftart. One solution is to use > PuTTY to connect via ssh to localhost, but I think this is a bit of > overkill. Is there another posiibility? You seem to be r

Re: font problems with xpdf and gv

2004-09-28 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Igor Pechtchanski writes: > On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> > Igor Pechtchanski writes: >> >> > setup is somehow failing in its dependency tracking. Alternatively, >> > why not make 'gv' invoke '/usr/X11R6/bin/gs' explicitly, instead of >> > searc

Re: font problems with xpdf and gv

2004-09-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Igor Pechtchanski writes: > > > setup is somehow failing in its dependency tracking. Alternatively, > > why not make 'gv' invoke '/usr/X11R6/bin/gs' explicitly, instead of > > searching for it in the PATH? > > I'm not sure, there was talk before

Re: font problems with xpdf and gv

2004-09-28 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Igor Pechtchanski writes: > setup is somehow failing in its dependency tracking. Alternatively, why > not make 'gv' invoke '/usr/X11R6/bin/gs' explicitly, instead of searching > for it in the PATH? I'm not sure, there was talk before that eventually the /usr/X11R6/ hierarchy wi

Re: font problems with xpdf and gv

2004-09-28 Thread Igor Pechtchanski
On Tue, 28 Sep 2004, Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > > Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > > > Dr. Volker Zell wrote: > >> Make sure you have the x11 version of ghostscript installed. > > > It's about time this is added to the FAQ, don't you think? > > I'm also thinking about releasing a new versi

Re: font problems with xpdf and gv

2004-09-27 Thread Dr. Volker Zell
> Yaakov Selkowitz writes: > Dr. Volker Zell wrote: >> Make sure you have the x11 version of ghostscript installed. > It's about time this is added to the FAQ, don't you think? I'm also thinking about releasing a new version of gv with a new README, if it helps. > Yaakov Ci

Re: font problems with xpdf and gv

2004-09-27 Thread Yaakov Selkowitz
Dr. Volker Zell wrote: Make sure you have the x11 version of ghostscript installed. It's about time this is added to the FAQ, don't you think? Yaakov -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http

Re: Font size and color for rxvt

2001-12-20 Thread Randall R Schulz
Rotaiv, This has now acquired the status of a perennial question, so searching the archives will yield several informative messages. Also, if you read the man page, then you must not have read it very carefully, because it's quite clear about setting the fonts. It won't explain the funkiness w