* Fun with fonts
@ 2001-01-13 23:50 Jack Twilley
2001-01-14 0:44 ` Chad House
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From: Jack Twilley @ 2001-01-13 23:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
2001-01-13 23:50 Fun with fonts Jack Twilley
@ 2001-01-14 0:44 ` Chad House
2001-01-14 11:22 ` Norman Walsh
2001-01-14 8:54 ` Hans de Graaff
2001-01-14 12:31 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Chad House @ 2001-01-14 0:44 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
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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
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* Re: Fun with fonts
2001-01-13 23:50 Fun with fonts Jack Twilley
2001-01-14 0:44 ` Chad House
@ 2001-01-14 8:54 ` Hans de Graaff
2001-01-14 10:42 ` Jack Twilley
2001-01-14 12:31 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Hans de Graaff @ 2001-01-14 8:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
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
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* Re: Fun with fonts
2001-01-14 8:54 ` Hans de Graaff
@ 2001-01-14 10:42 ` Jack Twilley
2001-01-14 16:15 ` Stainless Steel Rat
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From: Jack Twilley @ 2001-01-14 10:42 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> "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
2001-01-14 0:44 ` Chad House
@ 2001-01-14 11:22 ` Norman Walsh
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From: Norman Walsh @ 2001-01-14 11:22 UTC (permalink / raw)
/ 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
--
Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> | Time is a great teacher, but
http://nwalsh.com/ | unfortunately it kills all its
| pupils.--Berlioz
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* Re: Fun with fonts
2001-01-13 23:50 Fun with fonts Jack Twilley
2001-01-14 0:44 ` Chad House
2001-01-14 8:54 ` Hans de Graaff
@ 2001-01-14 12:31 ` Kai Großjohann
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From: Kai Großjohann @ 2001-01-14 12:31 UTC (permalink / raw)
Cc: ding
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
--
Be indiscrete. Do it continuously.
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* Re: Fun with fonts
2001-01-14 10:42 ` Jack Twilley
@ 2001-01-14 16:15 ` Stainless Steel Rat
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From: Stainless Steel Rat @ 2001-01-14 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
* 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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