Re: recent emacs font problems?

[Jan D.]

>     Thank you.  However, I still can't understand how things are 
> supposed to
>     work.  In my .Xdefaults I set default font to courier-14.  Now if I
>     do (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "fixed"), shall new 
> frames
>     get courier-14 or fixed-14?
>
> The set-face-attribute call should certainly override the X resource.
> So the family must be "fixed".

Okay.

>       Currently they get fixed-14 but with the
>     font metrics of courier-14,
>
> I am not completely sure what that means.  Do you mean that Emacs
> chooses the font fixed-14 but uses some data taken from the wrong
> font?  That is clearly a bug.  Whichever font is chosen, Emacs
> should use it consistently.

It means that when Emacs calculates pixel width and height of the new 
frame
it uses the width and height of courier-14, but then renders text with
fixed-14.  I think the default face for the new frame has not been 
realized
when this calculation occurs.

>     If I select courier 12 from the shift-down-1 menu, shall I get
>     courier-12
>     or fixed-12?  Currently I get fixed-12 (with courier-12 font 
> metrics).
>
> This should select courier 12, the font that you chose.

Thanks,

        Jan D.