-@table @var
-@item maker
-This is the name of the font manufacturer.
-@item family
-This is the name of the font family---for example, @samp{courier}.
-@item weight
-This is normally @samp{bold}, @samp{medium} or @samp{light}. Other
-words may appear here in some font names.
-@item slant
-This is @samp{r} (roman), @samp{i} (italic), @samp{o} (oblique),
-@samp{ri} (reverse italic), or @samp{ot} (other).
-@item widthtype
-This is normally @samp{condensed}, @samp{extended}, @samp{semicondensed}
-or @samp{normal}. Other words may appear here in some font names.
-@item style
-This is an optional additional style name. Usually it is empty---most
-long font names have two hyphens in a row at this point.
-@item pixels
-This is the font height, in pixels.
-@item height
-This is the font height on the screen, measured in tenths of a printer's
-point---approximately 1/720 of an inch. In other words, it is the point
-size of the font, times ten. For a given vertical resolution,
-@var{height} and @var{pixels} are proportional; therefore, it is common
-to specify just one of them and use @samp{*} for the other.
-@item horiz
-This is the horizontal resolution, in pixels per inch, of the screen for
-which the font is intended.
-@item vert
-This is the vertical resolution, in pixels per inch, of the screen for
-which the font is intended. Normally the resolution of the fonts on
-your system is the right value for your screen; therefore, you normally
-specify @samp{*} for this and @var{horiz}.
-@item spacing
-This is @samp{m} (monospace), @samp{p} (proportional) or @samp{c}
-(character cell).
-@item width
-This is the average character width, in pixels, multiplied by ten.
-@item registry
-@itemx encoding
-These together make up the X font character set that the font depicts.
-(X font character sets are not the same as Emacs charsets, but they
-are solutions for the same problem.) You can use the
-@command{xfontsel} program to check which choices you have. However,
-normally you should use @samp{iso8859} for @var{registry} and @samp{1}
-for @var{encoding}.
-@end table
-
-@cindex listing system fonts
- You will probably want to use a fixed-width default font---that is,
-a font in which all characters have the same width. Any font with
-@samp{m} or @samp{c} in the @var{spacing} field of the long name is a
-fixed-width font. Here's how to use the @command{xlsfonts} program to
-list all the fixed-width fonts available on your system:
-
-@example
-xlsfonts -fn '*x*' | egrep "^[0-9]+x[0-9]+"
-xlsfonts -fn '*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-m*'
-xlsfonts -fn '*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-c*'
-@end example
-
-@noindent
-To see what a particular font looks like, use the @command{xfd} command.
-For example:
-
-@example
-xfd -fn 6x13
-@end example
-
-@noindent
-displays the entire font @samp{6x13}.
-
- While running Emacs, you can set the font of the current frame
-(@pxref{Frame Parameters}) or for a specific kind of text
-(@pxref{Faces}).