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Re: help with fonts

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Ethan Carter <ec1828@somewhere.edu> writes:

> François Patte <francois.patte@mi.parisdescartes.fr> writes:
>
>> Bonjour,
>>
>> I have this line in my init file .emacs :
>>
>> (set-face-font 'default "fontset-default")
>>    (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'grantha "Noto Serif Grantha")
>>
>> And emacs complains that it cannot find this font.
>>
>> If I test the installed fonts with fc-list, I get this answer:
>>
>> fc-list |grep Grantha
>> /usr/share/fonts/google-noto/NotoSerifGrantha-Regular.ttf: Noto Serif
>> Grantha:style=Regular
>>
>> So the font is installed.... Why this complaint? And how can I debug?
>>
>> I add that this was perfectly working in my previous linux install,
>> did I miss something in my new installation?
>
> My first guess is that somehow you're not getting the font name right.
> If you tell
>
>   xlsfonts | grep rantha
>
> to your shell, what do you get?
>
> By the way, I set my GNU EMACS font using an X resource:
>
> $ cat ~/.Xresources | grep emacs.font                                          
> emacs.font: -misc-fira code medium-medium-r-normal--17-0-0-0-m-0-iso8859-1
> $ 
>
> I feel using an X resource sets the font quicker avoiding you noticing a
> resize of the window.  (If I recall correctly.  It's been weeks since I
> started the GNU EMACS.)
>
> Good luck!

This is all I have in my config for the font:

  (set-frame-font "DejaVu Sans Mono 11" nil t)

I believe it is for this font (from fc-list):

/usr/share/fonts/truetype/dejavu/DejaVuSansMono.ttf: DejaVu Sans Mono:style=Book

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