From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16572 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John H Palmieri Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: font suggestions for GNU Emacs? (was Re: MULE primer) Date: 01 Sep 1998 14:29:35 -0500 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155423 28646 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:10:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:10:23 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA25115 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:30:27 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAF29835; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:01:20 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 01 Sep 1998 14:29:55 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA12138 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:29:47 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from darwin.helios.nd.edu (darwin.helios.nd.edu [129.74.250.114]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA25094 for ; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 15:29:37 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from jpalmier@localhost) by darwin.helios.nd.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA20275; Tue, 1 Sep 1998 14:29:36 -0500 (EST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org X-Face: ,;upNQ$t/)!L]^R9Po%swv4 writes: > GNU Emacs 20.3.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.5.1, X toolkit) of Thu Aug 27 1998 on darwin > > I am looking for suggestions about what fontset to use, or what fonts > to use to make a fontset, or something like that, so that I can > pleasantly read MULE stuff. I think I have these choices: [snip] > 2. I could use "standard fontset", which can handle a lot more > international fonts (e.g., it lets me see Japanese characters in the > passage below), but is butt-ugly (in my opinion). This option does > not let me *pleasantly* read MULE stuff. [snip] > 4. Download some other fonts from somewhere. (I have intlfonts-1.1 > already.) Wait, it's looking better now. When I first installed intlfonts-1.1, somehow I missed the instructions about running mkfontdir (which didn't get run because I didn't do a full installation, perhaps?). I've now run that, and the standard fontset looks much better for some reason. Hitting C-h h gives me a screen full of all sorts of pretty fonts, too. -- John H. Palmieri e-mail: palmieri@member.ams.org 205 Computing/Mathematics Building URL: http://www.nd.edu/~jpalmier/ University of Notre Dame (219) 631-8846 Notre Dame, IN 46556