enabling dejavu/bitstream vera font in emacs
 

Hi all,
I have been using slackware for sometime now. I have now slackware 12.0 installed on my computer. Everything seems to be fine except for fonts in emacs. I noticed that there is dejavu fonts included in the /usr/share/fonts/TTF directory. however, if i set my fonts in my .emacs file as
(set-default-font "-misc-dejavu sans-medium-r-normal--*-*-75-75-p-*-*-*")
i get only blocks.
i then copied bitstream sans mono fonts in the same directory as above. then i did mkfontscale,mkfontdir,fc-cache. i restarted X. although i bitstream vera fonts are found, again i get blocks.
however bitstream charter works.
Is there something i am missing? xlsfonts for dejavu and bitstream vera sans mono shows 0(zero) in the pixel size fields.
any help is very much appreciated.
Thanks
krishnan

Fire up xfontsel, pick your font and put that in your ~/.emacs. I've got this for Terminus (which I prefer):

(set-frame-font "-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")
(set-default-font "-*-terminus-medium-r-*-*-14-*-*-*-*-*-*-*")

Hi,
thanks for your reply. i have tried using xfontsel earlier. i get empty boxes instead of characters. that is what my original doubt was.

Try putting - between dejavu and sans. Maybe that'll help.

Solved.
 

Problem is now solved.
i got emacs from the CVS(23.0.50) and recompiled from source. Fonts are now all ok. I think this is a problem with emacs version 21.4. Thanks again for your suggestions.

No problem.