changeset 100286:8506ece097a2

(Font X): Move discussion of quoting to top.
author Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
date Tue, 09 Dec 2008 14:27:56 +0000
parents 77f456ab3fb3
children 7dc87d36d23b
files doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi
diffstat 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi	Tue Dec 09 14:27:50 2008 +0000
+++ b/doc/emacs/cmdargs.texi	Tue Dec 09 14:27:56 2008 +0000
@@ -793,9 +793,17 @@
 Use @var{font} as the default font.
 @end table
 
+When passing a font specification to Emacs on the command line, you
+may need to ``quote'' it, by enclosing it in quotation marks, if it
+contains characters that the shell treats specially (e.g. spaces).
+Here is an example:
+
+@smallexample
+emacs -fn "DejaVu Sans Mono-12"
+@end smallexample
+
 @cindex X defaults file
 @cindex X resources file
-
   You can also specify the font using your X resources file (usually a
 file named @file{.Xdefaults} or @file{.Xresources} in your home
 directory), by adding a line like this:
@@ -806,7 +814,8 @@
 
 @noindent
 You must restart X, or use the @command{xrdb} command, for the X
-resources file to take effect.  @xref{Resources}.
+resources file to take effect.  @xref{Resources}.  When specifying a
+font in your X resources file, you should not quote it.
 
 @cindex fontconfig
   There are four different ways to express a ``font name''.  The first
@@ -834,20 +843,6 @@
 Monospace-12:weight=bold:slant=italic
 @end smallexample
 
-@noindent
-When passing a font specification to Emacs on the command line, you
-may need to ``quote'' it, by enclosing it in quotation marks, if it
-contains characters that the shell treats specially (e.g. spaces).
-For example:
-
-@smallexample
-emacs -fn "DejaVu Sans Mono-12"
-@end smallexample
-
-@noindent
-When specifying a font in your X resources file, you should not quote
-it.
-
   The second way to specify a font is to use the @dfn{GTK format}.
 This has the syntax