Hi all, I've recently switched from Sarge to Etch (I've decided to do a reinstall, not an upgrade, because I also wanted to repartition the hard disk) and in the last few days I've been restoring my customizations. I've run into a problem with fonts. In Sarge I had configured Emacs to use the same font as the Gnome Terminal, and I want to do the same thing in Etch. The font family Gnome is using is "DejaVu" (package ttf-dejavu). As this is a TrueType font, it isn't immediately available from Emacs: it has to be registered first as an X11 font. I had been able to do that in Sarge by following directions from this page: http://www.paulandlesley.org/linux/xfree4_tt.html (specifically, section 4.2) and tried to do the same in Etch. Basically the procedure is: 1. go to the directory where the TrueType fonts are stored (that is /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu) 2. run ttmkfdir (creates fonts.scale) 3. run mkfontdir (creates fonts.dir) 4. in /etc/X11/xorg.conf add the following line to Section "Files": FontPath /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ttf-dejavu 5. restart the X server (of course must be done as root) So this worked in Etch too: after the procedure, "xlsfonts | grep dejavu" shows quite a lot of fonts. The one I want seems to be "-misc-dejavu sans mono-medium-r-normal--15-150-75-75-m-0-iso10646-1" (in the Gnome font panel it's listed as "Monospace, 12 pt"). But strangely, when I run Emacs with this font, the text window isn't dimensioned correctly: it should be 80 characters wide, but only 72 fit within. There's also some extra spacing between lines. See attached screenshot: the Gnome Terminal window shows what it should look like. I guess that Emacs doesn't get the font metrics correctly. I don't know which I should blame -- the font files, Emacs or X-Windows. Anyway, does anyone know what I could do to fix this? Please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed. Thanks everybody Gerardo
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