From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "rgb" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Can I ask a Simple question? Date: 5 Oct 2006 08:06:04 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <1160060763.796023.226750@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> References: <20061002172135.Q1494@serenity.region4.net> <1159988801.087342.3040@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1160063695 6932 80.91.229.2 (5 Oct 2006 15:54:55 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:54:55 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 05 17:54:54 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVVKl-0000Tj-K4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 17:40:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GVVKl-0003wn-3C for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Oct 2006 11:40:27 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 13 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 63.91.129.20 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1160060769 30736 127.0.0.1 (5 Oct 2006 15:06:09 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 15:06:09 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com; posting-host=63.91.129.20; posting-account=C7LM4w0AAAD23IRuMuUUJVCLQTuHhTK8 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:142201 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:37821 Archived-At: > To pick out a font and get its full name (like that > -adobe-courier-med...) I run NEdit and use its built in font selection > tool. I tried xfontsel, but it wasn't helpful. After selecting a font with S- in Emacs you can get it's name by putting this line in your *scratch* buffer and hitting C-j (assoc 'font (frame-parameters)) You should get a result something like this: (font . "-outline-Courier New-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1")