Ar an triú lá déag de mí na Samhain, scríobh Ilya N. Golubev:
Before all, I do not like inquiring like that. It is too much like
demanding to prove that my system(s) conform to some undefined
standard, with implication that everybody with system like that is
screwed.
If I’m implementing something, it is relevant to me what real-world
situations are affected by it. And so it should be.
Moreover, one of my X servers exhibiting the "inconvenient"
behavior
may be unavailable right now, so I may be unable to give detailed
answers. This only means that someone (not necessarily me) will hit
the same restriction in xemacs with some server like that couple of
months later.
I’ve nothing against giving a warning and saying ‘please use the full XLFD
for of the name of the font you want. In the unlikely event that the font
you want to use doesn’t have a full XLFD available, please create one using
a directory and fonts.alias, or use the non-Mule version of XEmacs, where
the point of the version is that we don’t care what character a given number
is, with the unfair exception of most of ASCII.’
‘I want to use a font name that isn’t a full XLFD’ has a simple answer;
‘find its XLFD and use that.’ Text font names without XLFDs are rare, and
intentionally so.
[...]
> Which fonts do you want to use?
All that are available to clients of given x server.
No, you don’t. Running XEmacs on X11 is not useful after a successful call to
(set-face-font 'default "cursor")
for example. Which fonts do you want to use?
[...]
> When you run xfd -fn font-specification , does it list a full XLFD with
> dashes at the top of the window?
Not necessarily. For `850pc8x14' font name it outputs just the same
string. From font directory lookups it also appears that in that
particular system there just no other name for that font, let alone
xlfd format one.
When you do
mkdir /tmp/ilya && echo
'-ilya-850pc8x14-medium-r-normal--14-120--75-75-C-80-iso8859-1 850pc8x14’ >
/tmp/ilya/fonts.alias && xset fp+ /tmp/ilya
can you then select the font with xfd in full dashed form?
--
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