Decent fonts in Emacs?
Hi. Im running Gnome under Lenny.
Im trying to get Emacs to work with some decent fonts that show some special characters in a document, things like an "fi" or "fl" ligature, or
some other odd things like that (ellipsis).
When i look at these files in gedit, or even in the terminal wiht "more", they look OK, but in Emacs i get square boxes or blank spaces everywhere.
I read the Emacs wiki all over, and i installed emacs-gtk, installed x-ttcidfont-conf, restarted X. But things are still difficult.
>From the font menu in Emacs i can still only choose the basic fonts, not TTF ones. gedit tells me im using the system font, Bitstream Vera Sans Mono 10, but when i try to get the full name for this with xfontsel and then put this into Emacs, it looks nothing like it does in gedit,
its much larger, and i still cant select
different things easily.
Is there any simple set of instructions i can get to be albe to have decent looking fonts in Emacs for this purpose? Why does it have to
be so hard? :-(
The most important thing is that i can see these different characters.
Jen
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