[h-e-w] RE: troubles creating bdf fontset

[Brandon Hall]

Never mind never mind...

The font package I was using (ucs-fonts) also contained a set of scripts to
derive the iso-8859-1 bdf fonts from the more general iso-10646 ones....I
plugged them into my bdf-font-directory and now it works fine!

Brandon

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Brandon Hall 
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 2:42 PM
> To: 'address@hidden'
> Subject: troubles creating bdf fontset
> 
> 
> I recently downloaded a set of the classic "misc-fixed" X11 
> fonts (BDF format) that I wanted to use with NT Emacs (and 
> also use in Win2k, but that's another story...).  (I just 
> happen to like these fonts, particularly 9x15 and 10x20).  I 
> have been following the instructions in the FAQ for creating 
> a fontset, but I stumble at the following step:
> 
>       (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
>        "-Misc-Fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-c-*-fontset-bdf")
> 
> The debugger dumps
> 
>       Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "No fonts match 
> `-misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-1'")
> 
> So in *scratch* buffer, I did this to look at the font list 
> (into which I had already loaded the bdf fonts):
> 
>       (insert (prin1-to-string (x-list-fonts 
> "*")))("-Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--20-200-75-75-C-100-ISO106
> 46-1" [ ... etc ]
> 
> Apparently all the BDF fonts I have are "ISO-10646" codeset.  
> Is there any way to get the fonts I have to work with the 
> default latin-1 charset?  I've tried finagling the 
> fontset-spec string, to no avail.
> 
> TIA
> 
> Brandon Hall
> Software Development
> USAN, Inc.
> 3080 Northwoods Circle
> Norcross, GA  30071
> 
> bhall at usaninc.com
> Tel: 770/453-6036
>