From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4702 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Neil Woods Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus Date: Thu, 17 Mar 2005 21:34:53 +0000 Message-ID: <873buut0qq.fsf@phun.phasmic.org> References: <42345abc$0$1078$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> <39l973F60qa11U1@individual.net> <42359857$0$26554$9b4e6d93@newsread4.arcor-online.net> <16949.42079.854993.937945@parhasard.net> <4235b0e4$0$1078$9b4e6d93@newsread2.arcor-online.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670620 24524 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:23:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:23:40 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:11 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-X-Trace: individual.net m6P8Z50XtA+03v7w1R0ZuARXpcWrBQDuvmPImvEzIPn1qqphW9 X-Orig-Path: phun.phasmic.org!news User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAHlBMVEW6u/9tb/82N/5HSf4i I/5ZXP4MDP6Cg/8BAPcAAP8eRxoXAAACK0lEQVQ4jVWUMW/bMBCFb/PMqgTnkLTRjBKltmspWYBH SiW0C4KRbBYK4/bCCOo1MQjz35ZKbInh+D4d37sjKeAVL2giT1mR6Wc/rwwmcGyELmzLI8BBa2XG RqRsJM1uARWUhhryZc0Qx2SzAAclo2RsOxKA/b4AD1tCGQkLkRaPcUU3UsMwMYiNiMxfwZARw9cW SaOjnd6gIOwAmKRHlUUF7nUCAEi75CnSL48BMIRA8FhHuqx7SCd9Ik1c4EvoDjdwjPr25y3gHYy/ I3BKg3IDNEp1PXVBOdy2ktXi734Ase8EV1RW1VzzYsC+xw0VpM2XvVwB9sNjhSOJ3C8t2MMdxFP/ a4DBDVAZzeSNAd5B1Ln325s8gbg/9zCDA8bn2hdsBuNjDFQHH6EAj5G1L+0CPnnrLP0AK0zioQ+c p8BWQT+qb4v6fFlbFQBOd4HPBU5vypS0oXNkOMr9Yj3UW0MJmcZKaJzI1WvTdghheOZrnMj3dlQT oNY0oaKfr/qggjeCVc10ck7ki4tVwkIm8ufTzvVFuxgJIYoANv6yGUpG5mE5LQoFOa9DwmGL+HMG g04tJELu/FCtD7g07y8PBP6IbHe98DXGwP1iYEVeX09tEW5iPHcKRuX86qwhCf/UJBjL1eZfSVTG d0vgFwFC8aJ56hWXWsoZnDVUmq9JruV+10ev0HHIq6pU9fnsr71S86lcAqgHbeXe+b0Wy18mgEyW whTS8+AevQ/+H+Jzx4j9b0HTAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC Cancel-Lock: sha1:IQYdEikdESbiZH2yDDqZJWcir6A= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4843 Original-Lines: 30 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4843 Tue Jan 17 17:34:11 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4702 Archived-At: On Mon, Mar 14 2005, Peter Petersen wrote: > I did some google searching for good monospace fonts to use with > emacs. But basically I didn't get one step forward. "terminus" has > already been mentioned, but like I said, I don't like it better than > my monotype-courier new, which is only a sad compromise. > > If someone still knows of good fixed width fonts for emacs, please, > let me know. I'm very pleased with standard adobe-courier, which gives me *bold* and /italic/ as well as combinations thereof. I have the following set in ~/.Xdefaults: !! Nice fontset with a Courier typeface: Emacs*Fontset-1:-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal-*-17-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-courier,\ mule-unicode-2500-33ff:-gnu-unifont-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,\ mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1,\ mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-*-*-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 The mule-unicode fonts are useful to provide neat threading characters in the summary buffer. The above render well on my 17" TFT monitor at 1280x1024. I've also tried terminus, but the italic rendering is very poor (in Debian package xfonts-terminus-oblique), so I don't use that anymore. -- Neil