On Thu, Nov 21, 2013 at 10:27 PM, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> wrote:

>         [ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider
>         [ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,
>         [ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example.
>
>        I wish I could specify fonts in Emacs in a way that would
>        really be useful in making such a document.
>
>     Are you referring to  customize-face  or something else (such
>     as, e.g., .Xresources/XLFD/XFT processing)?
>
> I mean a simple way to put some text in a different font, such as a
> 14-point bold font for a title, and have it (1) display on the screen
> in that font and (2) have that markup saved in the file.
>
> Emacs can already display a piece of text in that font, but it lacks a
> convenient user-level feature to do this whole job.
>

Maybe it is worth mentioning here (to avoid confusion) that the convenient
user-level feature would be using "styles" as it is normally called in word
processords (not direct formatting - which is a kludge you use sometimes
when you are short of time, or have not learned to use a word processor
yet... ;-) )