From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/4669 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user Subject: Re: bitstream vera sans mono ugly in gnus Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 08:58:31 +0900 Organization: FusionGOL - Global Online Japan Message-ID: <87oedlzsns.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> 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> <86k6oa6sr4.fsf@nova.revier.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138670539 24254 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:22:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:22:19 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:34:08 2006 Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!uio.no!216.196.110.149.MISMATCH!border2.nntp.ams.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!nntp.gol.com!203.216.70.8.MISMATCH!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus Original-Sender: eumi@gol.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: yokohama2-61-203-152-150.ap.0038.net Original-X-Trace: nnrp.gol.com 1110844711 20979 61.203.152.150 (14 Mar 2005 23:58:31 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@gol.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 23:58:31 +0000 (UTC) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Cancel-Lock: sha1:HNb7P+MtS6I0p3Fzmu0Fb6JBcLo= Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:4810 Original-Lines: 50 X-Gnus-Article-Number: 4810 Tue Jan 17 17:34:08 2006 Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:4669 Archived-At: Jochem Huhmann writes: >> If someone still knows of good fixed width fonts for emacs, please, let >> me know. > > I'm using Lucidatypewriter which is (for me) as good as it gets. No > italics, though. Hmm, an oddball choice perhaps, but I really like it: Shinonome-Gothic [On Debian this seems to come from one of the two packages `xfonts-shinonome' or `ttf-kochi-gothic'; I'm not entirely sure which though. I presume the former is a bitmap version, which Emacs will presumably favor.] For getting freefont to do auto-hinting (which can really, REALLY help -- some fonts look about a million times better -- but the vera fonts already have great hinting, so they probably won't look any different), there are various ways I think. On Debian it depends on the age of your installation, but the following should work I think: Put, in /etc/fonts/local.conf: /var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/fonts.conf true [You may already have that file with the lines between and commented out; if so, uncomment them.] In very recent versions of the Debian fontconfig package, there's a more convenient system which involves making symlinks in the /etc/fonts/conf.d directory[*], but I think the local.conf method is still supported. [*] Basically choose which option you like from the named choices in that directory, and make a symlink to it in the same directory with the symlink name beginning with two digits. -Miles -- [|nurgle|] ddt- demonic? so quake will have an evil kinda setting? one that will make every christian in the world foamm at the mouth? [iddt] nurg, that's the goal