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Re: Suggest installing more fonts?


From: Rudolf Schlatte
Subject: Re: Suggest installing more fonts?
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:30:43 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.1 (darwin)

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>> I think the best we can do here is (a) add more fonts to the default
>> fontset (it isn't trivial, as quite a few good fonts aren't free); and
>> (b) have a command to report which of the fonts mentioned in the
>> default fontset aren't available.
>
> There's still the issue of letting them know what the issue is.
> Clearly, showing them tofu isn't enough, because the issue comes up
> again and again.
>
> Popping up a warning buffer (at the first time tofu is displayed per
> session) may be OK, but could be annoying?  However, our warning buffers
> now have buttons to easily disable the warning permanently, so it might
> be OK.
>
> Displaying a message in the echo area (again, only the first time we
> tofu in a session) saying something like "Unable to display character;
> type `C-h TO-BE-DETERMINED' for more information" might also be an
> option.
>
> Or...  adding help echo text props to tofu?  We give non-character bytes
> in a buffer a special font, so that would be kinda analogous.

Adding information about which font carries the missing glyph to the
screen displayed with ‘C-u C-x =’ would be a possibility.

Rudi




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