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On Aug 6, 10:16 pm, Ted Zlatanov <t...@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 13:22:53 -0700 (PDT) sebastiansul...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> s> i'm getting this error when trying out your solution:
>
> s> An error has occurred while loading `/Users/sebastiansulger/.emacs':
>
> s> error: Invalid font or fontset name, -apple-monaco-medium-r-
> s> normal--14-140-72-72-m-140-mac-roman
>
> s> i know about the emacs.app. i need the x window system version of
> s> emacs for my research work, though, so the app versions of emacs
> s> (emacs.app, aquamacs) are not an option for me.
>
> X has a way to list fonts: xfontsel and xlsfonts. That will let you
> find the font you want.
>
> By the way, you don't need to reload Emacs to test this. Just put the
> cursor at the end of the call and hit `C-x C-e' inside Emacs. That will
> (in almost all modes) evaluate the preceding Lisp code.
>
> Ted
great, works now! thanks a lot, ted.
i actually came across that xfontsel thing some time ago but couldn't
quite get it to work; don't remember why.
this webpage was also very helpful:
http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~osigor/emacs/font.html
sebastian
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