After doing "emerge --depclean" on an amd64 machine, I find that Emacs no longer locates the font it previously used. The font I liked was specified in my .emacs file with the line (set-default-font "10x20"). Using the old .emacs file and doing "emacs --debug-init" now produces an error message that starts as follows::
Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Font `10x20' is not defined") modify-frame-parameters(#<frame em...@microway 0xf41280> ((font . "10x20"))) set-default-font("10x20") eval-buffer(#<buffer *load*> nil "/home/john/.emacs" nil t) ; Reading at buffer position 3345 load-with-code-conversion("/home/john/.emacs" "/home/john/.emacs" t t) load("~/.emacs" t t) #[nil " Doing "xlsfonts -l 10x20" at the Gentoo prompt elicits this response: DIR MIN MAX EXIST DFLT PROP ASC DESC NAME --> 0 255 some 0 23 15 5 -cronyx-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-koi8-r Interpreting this as a translation of the nickname 10x20 into the long name, I edited my .emacs file, replacing (set-default-font "10x20") with (set-default-font "-cronyx-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-koi8-r") With that change done, emacs starts without any error message. However, the font is not quite the same as the old one. The old font had no serifs except on the letters i and l, where they avoid confusion with the number 1. The new font has serifs on most letters and, to my eye, looks unnecessarily cluttered. With emacs running, I tried holding down the shift key and clicking the left mouse button. That as expected brought up a font menu. Selecting "Misc 10x20" elicited the response "Font not found." Comparing the font paths on the computer with the missing 10x20 font and on a computer with no font problem, I see the paths starting with /usr/share/fonts/misc are identical. Nonetheless there is a difference in the results from doing "locate 10x20" on the two machines. I can "locate" the following misc/10x20 fonts on the machine where Emacs works well but not on the machine where Emacs does not work well: /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-1.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-2.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-3.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-4.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-5.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-7.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-8.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-9.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-10.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-11.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-13.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-14.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-15.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-ISO8859-16.pcf.gz /usr/share/fonts/misc/10x20-KOI8-R.pcf.gz Suggestions for recovering the old "10x20" font would be appreciated. -John -- John P. Burkett Department of Economics University of Rhode Island Kingston, RI 02881-0808 USA phone (401) 874-9195