As per the latest comment in the upstream bug, this was already fixed in upstream Emacs 23 in 2011.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to emacs23 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/697412 Title: Emacs won't start, complaining about font ending in a number Status in GNU Emacs: Fix Released Status in Ubuntu Font Family: Invalid Status in “emacs23” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Binary package hint: emacs23 I've installed the "Ubuntu Beta Mono 17" font from https://launchpad.net/~canonical-ux/+archive/walled-garden (currently a private PPA). If you set your default system fixed width font to this (via Preferences -> Appearance -> Fonts) and set the font size to 11, then start emacs from the command line, you get the following early error message on the console and Emacs does not start: Font `Ubuntu Beta Mono 17 11' is not defined Now starting emacs with "emacs --font monospace" will get the first frame up, but then C-x 5 2 fails with the same error message in the minibuffer. The font size doesn't matter, since if you use the default 12 point font, the '11' is replaced by '12' in the error message above. Note that you can still use the font if you reset your system font to monospace and then set Ubuntu Beta Mono 17 in your .emacs or via customize on the default face. After confirmation by colleagues, we think it's a font parsing bug in Emacs. Using a system font of 'courier 10 pitch' does not cause the problem, nor does using a font with a number at the end but with no space between it and the preceding word. It appears as though ending the font name in "[space][number]" causes the problem. Upstream bug report: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=7853 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/emacs/+bug/697412/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
