Re: Using fontsets in emacs

[Anthony Fok <foka@debian.org>]

On Thu, May 17, 2001 at 10:48:12AM -0700, Curtis Brune wrote:
> I've read the emacs info pages about fontsets.  It boils down to setting
> Xresouces in the .Xdefault file.   I'm trying the following in my
> .Xdefaults wihtout success:
> 
> Emacs.Fontset-0: *-fixed-medium-*-15-*-fontset-24, \
>         chinese-big5-1:*-kai-*-*-15-*, \
>         chinese-big5-2:*-kai-*-*-15-*

I haven't actually tried it yet, but two observations:

 1. Debian, by default, only looks at ~/.Xresources, not ~/Xdefault,
    so put these line in ~/.Xresources.

 2. Don't forget to either "xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources" or restart X.  :-)

Hope this helps,

Anthony

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