Steven> If I build XEmacs on my own, I find that I am unable to Steven> set the font size displayed in the buffer. When I attempt I suspect this is due to an interaction between the size and the font. Try changing to a different font then changing size. You may also have :unscaled set somewhere in your X font path or in XEmacs. Cf `font-menu-ignore-scaled-fonts'. Steven> to use the menue to change the font size, it effects the Steven> size of the fonts in the modeline, but not in the edit Steven> buffer. Steven> The SuSE built version works fine. Please do M-x report-emacs-bug in SuSE, save the buffer to a file, then include that file in a bug report from the homebrew version. The output of xlsfonts would also be interesting. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py

Steven> SuSE's build has many more fonts available than does my Steven> home brew. My home brew doesn't let me change the fonts Steven> using the menue, an that's the only way I know how to do Steven> it. Steven> XEmacs 21.4.8 "Honest Recruiter" configured for `i386-suse-linux'. and Steven> XEmacs 21.5-b9 "brussels sprouts" configured for `i686-pc-linux'. oo-er Well, now you know why it's called "bleeding edge." There's a reason SuSE doesn't distribute 21.5. 21.5 is _not_ ready for prime time. Anything related to text processing has been thoroughly massaged in order to make it Unicode compatible and to add Mule support on Windows. This includes font handling. 21.5 is reasonably stable in operation at the present time (but that could change at any time). That doesn't mean it's completely functional, and definitely a lot of work remains to be done. If you want to use 21.5 _now_ you had better get familiar with stuff like `set-face-font' and so on, and be prepared for stuff to just not work. I doubt Custom (the options setting mechanism) will get fixed in the near future. The people more or less actively working on 21.5 all have specific non-UI projects they're concentrating on. I'm planning to look into Custom myself, but don't expect results in the next month or two. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py