@end smallexample
@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
specify @samp{*} for this and @var{horiz}.
@item spacing
This is @samp{m} (monospace), @samp{p} (proportional) or @samp{c}
-(character cell). Emacs can use @samp{m} and @samp{c} fonts.
+(character cell).
@item width
This is the average character width, in pixels, multiplied by ten.
@item charset
Normally you should use @samp{iso8859-1}.
@end table
- Use only fixed-width fonts---that is, fonts in which all characters
-have the same width; Emacs cannot yet handle display properly for
-variable-width fonts. 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 @code{xlsfonts} program to list all the fixed-width fonts
-available on your system:
+ 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 @code{xlsfonts} program to
+list all the fixed-width fonts available on your system:
@example
xlsfonts -fn '*x*' | egrep "^[0-9]+x[0-9]+"