Fonts in XEmacs, would like same as in KDE

[steing]

XEmacs is one of my favorite applications, and I use it a lot.
However, after installing 11.4 natty, I can no longer find a good font to use as default.
It seems like there is no mono-space sanserif X11-font available for 11.4,
that has regular, bold, and italic variants. I end up with a large, unreadable Courier font.

Does anyone know a font to specify?

Ideally, I would like to automatically use the font specified in
System Settings->Application Appearance->Fonts->Fixed Width,
which I have currently set to Monospace 9, but I don't know how to specify this as an X11-font.

Can the KDE fonts be used with XEmacs?

Thanks.
stein

[josefko]

Re: Fonts in XEmacs, would like same as in KDE

I use Emacs 23, maybe the problem and the solution can be the same. The default mono font for Emacs 23 is DejaVu Sans Mono, you can try it, I use it in Windows. In Kubuntu I chose font Inconsolata (it must be installed from repository). Inconsolata won for example here: http://hivelogic.com/articles/top-10-programming-fonts/. There is no Italic for it, so I use DejaVu Sans Mono for Italic. See the picture of my Emacs

[steing]

Re: Fonts in XEmacs, would like same as in KDE

Thanks.
I tried to install the Inconsolata font, but I did not get it to work.

Here is what i tried:
After installing the font, I installed xfstt to access it in X11.
# xfstt --sync
# /etc/init.d/xfstt start
% xset fp+ unix/:7101
% xfontsel

I would expect the Inconsolata font to show up in the font list, so I could copy its name to the app-defaults file, but it did not (some other ttf-fonts did, though).

Also, xfontsel seems to randomly crash the machine...

What did I do wrong?

[josefko]

Re: Fonts in XEmacs, would like same as in KDE

The easiest way is to type in console

$ sudo apt-get install ttf-inconsolata

to install it from repository.

The second way is to download inconsolata.otf from http://www.actsofvolition.com/archiv...er/inconsolata and to install it in System Settings > Font installer.

Then Inconsolata can be seen in the font list (not ttf-inconsolata) and it is accesible in Emacs Customize.

I have never seen commands you described.