Fun with fonts

Fun with fonts

[Jack Twilley]

So I've been searching for a new font, since I somehow blew away my
old happy working font setup in Emacs.

I'd like _underline_, *bold*, and /italics/ to work in Gnus, and I'd
prefer a fixed-width font to a proportional font.  I'd also like a
nice simple clean font like "fixed", or the one I'm currently using,
"-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-sans-12-*-100-100-*-*-*-*".

Any recommendations?

Jack.
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Re: Fun with fonts

[Chad House]

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On 13 Jan 2001, Jack Twilley wrote:

> So I've been searching for a new font, since I somehow blew away my
> old happy working font setup in Emacs.
> 
> I'd like _underline_, *bold*, and /italics/ to work in Gnus, and I'd
> prefer a fixed-width font to a proportional font.  I'd also like a
> nice simple clean font like "fixed", or the one I'm currently using,
> "-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-sans-12-*-100-100-*-*-*-*".
> 
> Any recommendations?

I'm somewhat partial to the "Gamow" font from the Linux Font Project:

   http://dreamer.nitro.dk/linux/lfp/

(Small sample of Gamow-9 attached.)


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Cheers,

Chad

Re: Fun with fonts

[Norman Walsh]

/ Chad House <chadh@pobox.com> was heard to say:
| > I'd like _underline_, *bold*, and /italics/ to work in Gnus, and I'd
| > prefer a fixed-width font to a proportional font.  I'd also like a
| > nice simple clean font like "fixed", or the one I'm currently using,
| > "-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-sans-12-*-100-100-*-*-*-*".
| > 
| > Any recommendations?

On my linux box, I've settled on

  -adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-*

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Re: Fun with fonts

[Hans de Graaff]

On 13 Jan 2001, Jack Twilley wrote:
> So I've been searching for a new font, since I somehow blew away my
> old happy working font setup in Emacs.
> 
> I'd like _underline_, *bold*, and /italics/ to work in Gnus, and I'd
> prefer a fixed-width font to a proportional font.  I'd also like a
> nice simple clean font like "fixed", or the one I'm currently using,
> "-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-sans-12-*-100-100-*-*-*-*".

I'm using "-*-Neep-Medium-R-*-*-*-120-75-75-*-*-iso8859-1". This font
is part of the jmk-x11 font package. No italic, though... Not sure
where they can be found, but I think the author's homepage may be a
good start: http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/

Hans

Re: Fun with fonts

[Jack Twilley]

>>>>> "Hans" == Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org> writes:

Jack> So I've been searching for a new font, since I somehow blew away
Jack> my old happy working font setup in Emacs.
Jack> 
Jack> I'd like _underline_, *bold*, and /italics/ to work in Gnus, and
Jack> I'd prefer a fixed-width font to a proportional font.  I'd also
Jack> like a nice simple clean font like "fixed", or the one I'm
Jack> currently using,
Jack> "-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-sans-12-*-100-100-*-*-*-*".

Hans> I'm using "-*-Neep-Medium-R-*-*-*-120-75-75-*-*-iso8859-1". This
Hans> font is part of the jmk-x11 font package. No italic,
Hans> though... Not sure where they can be found, but I think the
Hans> author's homepage may be a good start:
Hans> http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/

Those fonts are part of FreeBSD's ports packages at
/usr/ports/x11-fonts/jmt-x11-fonts -- I'm now trying Gamow from the
/usr/ports/x11-fonts/nucleus as recommended by Chad House earlier in
the thread.

I've stuck the following line in my .gnus:

(set-default-font "-nucleus-gamow-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-*-iso8859-1")

I was reading through the documentation and tried this, but it didn't
work:

(add-hook 'gnus-load-hook '(lambda () (set-default-font
(set-default-font 
"-nucleus-gamow-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-*-iso8859-1")))) 

But that didn't work.  Any ideas on why not?

Hans> Hans

Jack.
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Re: Fun with fonts

[Stainless Steel Rat]

* Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@tbe.net>  on Sun, 14 Jan 2001
| Those fonts are part of FreeBSD's ports packages at
| /usr/ports/x11-fonts/jmt-x11-fonts -- I'm now trying Gamow from the
| /usr/ports/x11-fonts/nucleus as recommended by Chad House earlier in
| the thread.

I am liking Neep over Gamow very much.  It is narrower, which is a Good
Thing for faces with a point size >14 or so.  Underscoring is a little
weird looking, but I can get used to that.  It doesn't have italics but I
use a TrueType based Lucida Sans Typewriter for that (yay, xfstt :).

| (add-hook 'gnus-load-hook '(lambda () (set-default-font
| (set-default-font
| "-nucleus-gamow-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-*-iso8859-1"))))

| But that didn't work.  Any ideas on why not?

Well, aside from the duplicated set-default-font bit, Emacs does not like
changing the default face on the fly once other faces have been defined.
But you might try this:

 (set-face-font
  'default "-nucleus-gamow-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75--*-iso8859-1")

instead.  That might work.  It did for me (note the removal of the 'c' in
the spec).  XEmacs 21.1; YMMV.
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Re: Fun with fonts

[Kai Großjohann]

On 13 Jan 2001, Jack Twilley wrote:

> I'd like _underline_, *bold*, and /italics/ to work in Gnus, and I'd
> prefer a fixed-width font to a proportional font.  I'd also like a
> nice simple clean font like "fixed", or the one I'm currently using,
> "-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-sans-12-*-100-100-*-*-*-*".

I like -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal--16-160-72-72-c-80-iso8859-1,
myself.  This is part of the GNU intlfonts package (on FreeBSD, there
is also an ETL-Fonts package).  However, it's too large for you, I
guess.  The smaller version doesn't have bold :-(

kai
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