Re: giving up x-symbol and xft
Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh Stefan Holst:
I need to admit, that I do not understand enough to get it running
successfully. But let me please summarize what I tried:
somewhere early in the init.el:
(require 'x-symbol-unicode)
According to the default face font the behavior was much different:
(set-face-font 'default "SImPL-14")
the charsyms redefined in x-symbol-unicode.el get displayed nicely.
In case I set:
(set-face-font 'default "Arial-14")
only the charsyms contained also directly in the arial font get
displayed.
Bugger.
I’ve looked through faces.el, specifier.c, faces.c and the Lispref, and I
can’t work out a way to assign a specific X11 or Xft font to a given XEmacs
face when displaying a particular Mule character set. I can’t even work out
where you got the information on (define-specifier-tag 'lang-ja) and the
(set-face-font ...) that you’re using in the XFT docs, Stephen. So at least
the docs need more info, and if not we need to add this functionality.
Stefan, adding
(setq x-symbol-xsymb0-fonts '("SImPL-14")
x-symbol-xsymb1-fonts '("SImPL-14"))
to the end of your code might just get it running for you. I don’t have the
fonts locally to test, unless you’re pointing FreeType towards the PCF
ones.
This does not change if I specify SImPL to be part of the
preferred alias of sans defined in ~/.fonts.conf
the font forwarding of x-symbol-init-cset reaches not until object-x.c
where patternxft always contain the font specified either via .Xdefaults
or set-face-font.
This might have something to do with x-symbol-xmacs.el
x-symbol-set-face-font, I would guess.
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