Re: How to use xft font in unicode-xft branch

[Jan Djärv]

Meik Hellmund skrev:
> Leon <address@hidden> wrote:
> > BTW, it seems you workaround still use the X core font, isn't it?
>
> Why do you think so? Admittedly,
> Emacs.bold.attributeFont:  -bitstream-bitstream vera sans 
> mono-bold-r-*-*-*-100-*-*-*-*-*-*
> looks like XLFD, but on my machine I have no X font of this name:
>
> #xlsfonts -fn "*vera*"
> xlsfonts: pattern "*vera*" unmatched
>
> and this XLFD also does not work with other X applications. 
> So my (totally uneducated) guess is that emacs23-xft somehow uses XLFD 
> syntax also for truetype fonts, but in an slightly inconsistent way 
> (otherwise, bold & italic xft fonts should work automagically). 
>  
> Perhaps someone who really understands this can explain it?

The font selection code is not complete yet, so it sometimes picks the wrong 
font.  Like in this case.  The old non-xft code selects a font from 
-*-*-*-iso8859-1 (or whatever charset), and for Xft that happens to match vera 
sans.  I made a small change that fixes most of the problems.  -fn 
monospace-12:bold works for me now.  But the font selection for Xft is still 
not correct.  I will fix it after the current Emacs release.

        Jan D.