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authorGerd Moellmann2001-02-22 15:16:47 +0000
committerGerd Moellmann2001-02-22 15:16:47 +0000
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(Font X): Add description of the manufacturer font
name field. Don't allege that Emacs can only use monospaced fonts.
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diff --git a/man/cmdargs.texi b/man/cmdargs.texi
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@@ -571,6 +571,8 @@ emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-*-*-*-c-60-iso8859-1
571@end smallexample 571@end smallexample
572 572
573@table @var 573@table @var
574@item maker
575This is the name of the font manufacturer.
574@item family 576@item family
575This is the name of the font family---for example, @samp{courier}. 577This is the name of the font family---for example, @samp{courier}.
576@item weight 578@item weight
@@ -603,7 +605,7 @@ your system is the right value for your screen; therefore, you normally
603specify @samp{*} for this and @var{horiz}. 605specify @samp{*} for this and @var{horiz}.
604@item spacing 606@item spacing
605This is @samp{m} (monospace), @samp{p} (proportional) or @samp{c} 607This is @samp{m} (monospace), @samp{p} (proportional) or @samp{c}
606(character cell). Emacs can use @samp{m} and @samp{c} fonts. 608(character cell).
607@item width 609@item width
608This is the average character width, in pixels, multiplied by ten. 610This is the average character width, in pixels, multiplied by ten.
609@item charset 611@item charset
@@ -611,12 +613,11 @@ This is the character set that the font depicts.
611Normally you should use @samp{iso8859-1}. 613Normally you should use @samp{iso8859-1}.
612@end table 614@end table
613 615
614 Use only fixed-width fonts---that is, fonts in which all characters 616 You will probably want to use a fixed-width default font---that is,
615have the same width; Emacs cannot yet handle display properly for 617a font in which all characters have the same width. Any font with
616variable-width fonts. Any font with @samp{m} or @samp{c} in the 618@samp{m} or @samp{c} in the @var{spacing} field of the long name is a
617@var{spacing} field of the long name is a fixed-width font. Here's how 619fixed-width font. Here's how to use the @code{xlsfonts} program to
618to use the @code{xlsfonts} program to list all the fixed-width fonts 620list all the fixed-width fonts available on your system:
619available on your system:
620 621
621@example 622@example
622xlsfonts -fn '*x*' | egrep "^[0-9]+x[0-9]+" 623xlsfonts -fn '*x*' | egrep "^[0-9]+x[0-9]+"