Re: fonts on solaris

Jeff> But for whatever reason, the font that XEmacs uses is Jeff> hideous. It is very badly aliased. Of course, when I run Jeff> XEmacs, it works fine. This is a problem with most X installations. The generic solution is to make sure that the X server can't find ugly fonts. See Valdis's post. I will note that XEmacs's (and I rather suspect GNU Emacs's, too) Customize kinda sucks here, as AFAIK there's no clean way to specify a foundry, and (at least on most XFree86 installations) specifying things in point sizes (rather than pixel sizes) tends to confuse our font.el. So you may find that you need to use either X resources or the set-face-font API to get good results. Jeff> Why are most of the fonts listed twice? This often happens if (1) 72/5 and 100 dpi fonts are cross-aliased (XFree86 or maybe Linux distros do this), and (2) if your server searches both the standard font directories and a font server. Jeff> Do you understand what is going on? How do I make xemacs Jeff> pick a nice pretty font, or get rid of the ugly fonts? You may be best off selecting pixel sizes rather than point sizes. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Don't ask how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.