Re: Italic-Fonts does not change

Meino> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; Meino> Subject: Re: Italic-Fonts does not change Meino> Date: 14 Nov 2001 00:16:43 +0900 Meino> Message-ID: <87r8r2wvj8.fsf(a)tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; stephen> stephen> stephen> stephen> Meino> Regardless, what I am setting with "set-face-font", XEmacs stephen> Meino> insists of using the unreadable stephen> Meino> "-*-courier-medium-i-*-*-*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-*"-font stephen> stephen> Show us exactly what call you are using to set the face to FONT. Also stephen> show us what (list-fonts FONT) tells you. Meino> I did the following: Meino> I used customize-face (all = yes) to seacrh for the Meino> face used by AUC-TeX for its italic-face display. Meino> I gave the faces in question a blue background and typed Meino> some characters in AUC-TeX to proof whether I found the Meino> one. After some tests, it was clear, that AUC-TeX uses Meino> the "italic" face to display the characters. Meino> Changing the font for the "italic" face via customize failed Meino> (the begin of the story). Meino> You gave me the hint, to use set-face-font directly to Meino> set the font for the italic face. Meino> I started 'xlsfont -f xlsfonts -fn "-*-*-*-i-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*"' Meino> to giove me a list of fonts of the disired slant and size. Meino> I tried xfontsel and gimp to acces those fonts to be sure, Meino> that they are useable...they were. Meino> I typed Meino> M-x set-face-font <RETURN> italic <RETURN> -adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--14-135-75-75-m-0-iso8859-1"" <RETURN> On W2K I use M-x set-face-font RET italic RET Courier New:Italic:10::Western RET -adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--14-135-75-75-m-0-iso8859-1"" is definitely wrong. Use one of the fonts listed by list-fonts. Meino> after switching to tex-mode (which activates AUC-TeX). Meino> That does not work for me...no change was visisble. Meino> I tried Meino> M-x set-face-font <RETURN> italic <RETURN> -adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--14-135-75-75-m-0-iso8859-1 <RETURN> Meino> instead. Meino> No success, too. But XEmacs does not display any errors or something like that. Meino> It seems that "list-fonts" is a little be tricky...and I am no Lisp expert. Meino> As I understand, list-fonts returns a list of font names. Meino> I exxecuted the command Meino> (list-fonts "-*-*-*-i-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*") Meino> and it prints me dozens of fonts into the minibuffer...and after a second or two Meino> the list vanishes.... Meino> I have no clue how to copy the output into a mail (which Meino> means more exactly:...how to turn a lisp list into a "real Meino> string" )...would you give me a hint, please :-) You can be helped. Use View->Show Message Log to find messages past. Execute C-u (universal-argument) C-x C-e (eval-last-sexp) that's the sequence C-u C-x C-e RET (as M-x view-lossage RET reports it) after the list-fonts form in a mail or *scratch* buffer. Here is what I get on W2K (the result seems a bit funny but that may be a native XEmacs on MS Windows problem): (list-fonts "Courier New:Italic:10::Western") ("Courier New::::Western" "Courier New::::Western" "Courier New::::Western" "Courier New::::Western") Use one of the font strings you get, without the quotes, with set-face-font. Hope this helps, Adrian Meino> Same goes for Meino> (list-fonts "-adobe-courier-bold-i-normal--14-135-75-75-m-0-iso8859-1" ).... Meino> Thank you! Meino> Meino stephen> stephen> stephen> -- stephen> Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/