emacs-fontsets

Issue: cyrillic text is visible only in small fonts

I want to tune the fonts used for cyrillic text. For that I had to redefine the font in a fontset. This seems possible only in CVS emacs 21.x cannot do it.

(set-fontset-font
       ;; current fontset:
       (frame-parameter nil 'font)

   ;; the interval of cyrillic glyphs.... those covered by my pre-selected font:
       `(,(decode-char 'ucs #x0400) . ,(decode-char 'ucs #x04ff))

       ;;"Cronyx-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-25-180-100-100-P-98-KOI8-R"
       "*-*-medium-R-*-*-25-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r"
       )

But then Bold does not work (for those cyrillic)

  ;;; How to make bold?

  ;; I want to set a fixed font in a fontset. If i put "*" in the stroke field,  out of "bold" and "medium" available fonts, "bold" is
  ;; picked. So I specify "medium", but the 'bold face does not use "bold". I guess I have to specify 'bold face w/ a different fontset, but then
  ;; 'default and 'bold faces might happen to be of different size.

  ;; todo: I'm not able to set the default X font to use for ascii chars! So I have to create a NEW fontset w/ the right setting!
  ;; Create suitable for `bold' face:
  (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
   "-*-lucidatypewriter-bold-r-normal-*-20-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-3")

  ;; I should force emacs (C part) to take -Medium- rather than -Bold- version.  and Bold for :bold faces!
  (set-fontset-font
   "fontset-3"
   `(,(decode-char 'ucs #x0400) . ,(decode-char 'ucs #x04ff))
   ;;"Cronyx-Helvetica-Bold-R-Normal-*-25-180-100-100-P-98-KOI8-R"
   "*-*-bold-R-Normal-*-25-*-*-*-*-*-koi8-r")

For installation on Xorg I had to:

emerge font-cronyx-cyrillic
xset +fp /usr/share/fonts/cyrillic
xset fp rehash