[oi-dev] Emacs has a bad font

[Gordon Ross]

As far as I can tell, the "system" font for mate terminal and such is:
"DejaVu Sans Mono", or
-misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-o-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0

Based on what I see with xfontsel, it looks like emacs may be using:
-misc-dejavu sans light-extralight-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-ascii-0

I tried playing with the options/Set Default Font in emacs.
I'm not sure why, but emacs shows a lot less than xlsfonts does.

Here's what I have (from "save options") in both builds.
(custom-set-faces
 ;; custom-set-faces was added by Custom.
 ;; If you edit it by hand, you could mess it up, so be careful.
 ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 ;; If there is more than one, they won't work right.
 '(default ((t (:family "DejaVu Sans Mono" :foundry "PfEd" :slant
normal :weight normal :width normal :height 113)))))

There seems to be a change in either the fonts or the rendering, from
the older OI build to recent ones.
The examples shown by "xfontsel" look too light in some cases too.
I'd appreciate tips on how to track down this problem.

Thanks

On Wed, Nov 8, 2023 at 4:27 PM Gary Mills <gary_mills at fastmail.fm> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2023 at 05:44:42PM +0100, Andreas Wacknitz wrote:
>
> > If you are using the gtk variant of emacs
>
> That's the one I'm using.
>
> > then it relies on pango for
> > font rendering and layout which in case has dropped support for older
> > font types a couple of months ago.
> > So your problem might be that you are trying to use an unsupported (by
> > pango) font type and thus rendering results look ugly.
> > You might solve this be choosing a font of a supported font type, eg. a
> > truetype font.
>
> There's no indication of truetype in the list of fonts that emacs
> displays.  In fact, emacs will often tell me that a font does not
> exist when I select that font from its list.
>
>
> --
> -Gary Mills-            -refurb-                -Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada-
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