Re: emacs chooses wrong bold font, again

[Glenn Morris]

Kenichi Handa wrote:

>> Here is the M-x font-show-log output:
>
>> sort-by: -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--14-*-100-100-c-*-iso8859-1
>>   -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--*-100-100-c-*-iso8859-1
>
> This is the strange part. I don't know why the PIXELSIZE field is
> "*". As I modified the log to prepend the font-driver name before
> the font-entity and font-object, please take the log again and show me.

(No worries, I imagine all this font stuff is a nightmare to sort out.)

The bold font is correct again now (Emacs from 2 days ago gets it wrong).

I noticed that Emacs 22 and current CVS choose slightly different
fonts for fixed and variable pitch. Fixed looks smaller and a bit
uglier now. Variable just looks a bit different.

variable-pitch
CVS:
-adobe-helvetica-medium-r-normal--14-101-100-100-p-78-iso8859-1
22:
-Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-R-Normal--14-100-100-100-P-76-ISO8859-1

fixed-pitch
CVS:
-urw-nimbus mono l-regular-r-normal--14-101-100-100-p-80-iso8859-1
22:
-Adobe-Courier-Medium-R-Normal--14-100-100-100-M-90-ISO8859-1


This is with:
Emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1


Also, I have been specifying an italic font in ~/.emacs using

(face-spec-set 'italic
               '((t (:slant italic :underline nil :family "helvetica"))))

In CVS this now looks poor compared to in 22. Again they choose
different fonts:

CVS:
-urw-nimbus sans l-regular-i-normal--14-101-100-100-p-77-iso8859-1
22:
-Adobe-Helvetica-Medium-O-Normal--14-100-100-100-P-78-ISO8859-1


font log:

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