On 2021-07-02 22:33, Robert McBroom wrote:
On 7/2/21 5:58 PM, Brian Inglis wrote:
On 2021-07-02 15:21, mcforum wrote:
The legends in the heading for emacs have turned into boxes. the text
in buffers is normal.
What interaction is causing this? The X11 emacs is unusable emacs
-w32 works.
If you were using Windows fonts in Emacs, that could be caused by
Windows packages that decide it's a good idea to replace your existing
installed versions of Windows fonts by theirs e.g. LibreOffice updates
mess up the appearance of all my Windows, X, and Cygwin apps until I
reboot.
It seems to be caused by their ancient installer approach and
aggressive font replacement policy.
If something like that could be a cause of your problem, try rebooting
to see if that clears up the problem.
You could try restarting Windows, then rerunning setup to rerun the
postinstall scripts, to see if that fixes the font configuration.
Used "Courier New" for years. Just a monospace font for data entry.
Do you know if that is the Windows Courier New, one of the MS TT Core
Fonts package, or one of the X aliases Liberation Mono, Cousine,
Cumberland, Cumberland AMT?
See:
$ cd /usr/share/fonts/
$ ls -glo {truetype/msttcore,win-}fonts/Cour*.ttf | cut -c35-
truetype/msttcorefonts/cour.ttf -> Courier_New.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courb.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courbd.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courbi.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/couri.ttf -> Courier_New_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/courz.ttf -> Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Bold.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Bold_Italic.ttf
truetype/msttcorefonts/Courier_New_Italic.ttf
win-fonts/cour.ttf
win-fonts/courbd.ttf
win-fonts/courbi.ttf
win-fonts/couri.ttf
also /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/30-metric-aliases.conf:
<!--
Alias similar/metric-compatible families from various sources:
...
Microsoft... Liberation fonts: Google... StarOff... AMT fonts:
============ ================= ========= ========== ==============
...
Courier New Liberation Mono Cousine Cumberland Cumberland AMT
...
-->
...
<alias binding="same">
<family>Cousine</family>
<default>
<family>Courier New</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias binding="same">
<family>Liberation Mono</family>
<default>
<family>Courier New</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias binding="same">
<family>Cumberland</family>
<default>
<family>Courier New</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias binding="same">
<family>Cumberland AMT</family>
<default>
<family>Courier New</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias>
<family>Courier</family>
<default>
<family>Courier New</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias>
<family>Courier New</family>
<default>
<family>Courier</family>
</default>
</alias>
...
<alias binding="same">
<family>Courier New</family>
<accept>
<family>Cousine</family>
<family>Liberation Mono</family>
<family>Cumberland</family>
<family>Cumberland AMT</family>
</accept>
</alias>
...
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