Emacs fonts

Hi One-ers

Just a quick question: I'm regularly using emacs as my default text editor, but with the smallish screen of the ONe, I find the font too small to be comfortably seen. I actually like the font used by default on the Terminal, which is denoted as 'Monospaced Regular 12' on the configuration tool of the Options menu of the terminal, but can't recognize it by issuing an 'xlsfonts'.

Can anyone of you please tell me the precise name of the font used by the Terminal, so that I can use it in Emacs?

Thanks a lot,

Ferran.

 

I think the terminal you're talking about is the GTK-based one and not the standard xterm? If it is GTK then I guess it uses GTK fonts, and the Pango renderer. In which case you should be able to get an idea what font it is using by looking in the pango font aliases file (/etc/pango/pangox.aliases).

But I think there are multiple possibilities, so the final font that gets chosen will depend on what's installed on your system.

 

Hi Kevin,

thanks a *lot* for the info. yes it looks like you're right, and that the font I'm looking for lives in this pango thing.
I scrolled through the file you told me (/etc/pango/pangox.aliases) and found the monospace name I was talking about. However, the file lists items as follows:

serif normal normal normal normal \
"-*-times-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
-*-batang-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-ksc5601.1987-0,\
-*-clearlyu-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,\
-*-fixed-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
-kaist-iyagi-bold-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-johab-1,\
-*-song ti-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,\
-freetype-unitamil-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-tam,\
-*-devanagari-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-dev,\
-*-gujarati-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-guj,\
-*-gurmukhi-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-gur,\
-*-bengali-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-bng,\
-*-kannada-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-kan,\
-*-burmese-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-brm,\
-*-buginese-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-bgn,\
-*-oriya-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-ori,\
-daewoo-mincho-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-ksc5601.1987-0"

how should I invoke them in emacs? These start with -*- and emacs compalins when I simply issue the command
emacs -fn -*-gurmukhi-medium-r-normal--*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-gur
for instance. I'm 100% sure I'm doing it wrong so... what would be the right way to call in the font?

Best regards and thanks again,

Ferran.

 

You can probably get a full font path by running xfontsel, putting in the bits of info that you _do_ have, and then seeing what remaining options are not greyed out.

 

If you know how to compile a program or if you can find a Fedora RPM for Emacs 23, you should consider moving to it- it is a lot nicer than Emacs 22. It has full native unicode support and anti-alias fonts (via the usual libfreetype, fontconfig, xft) amd gtk+ widgets.

Here is the best place to learn how to setup and use Emacs:

http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki

 

Thanks Kevin & cpchan,

I actually followed your adivice and installed emacs-23, which certainly did the trick without further problems.
Now I can use my monospace regular 8 font which is the one I was looking for. I'm a happy camper now :mrgreen:

Thans gracias gracies merci danke spaceeva

Ferran.