default font for Mac, WinXP, and Linux?

default font for Mac, WinXP, and Linux?

[unfrostedpoptart]

I'm stumped and need advice.  I'm running emacs 23.2.1 on Linux
(Redhat Enterprise), Windows (XP-SP3), and Mac (OSX 10.6.5).
I'm trying to use a common .emacs.d/init.el and can't get the default
font to work across the 3 environments.  I just want them all to come
up with a nice, fixed-width font.  courier-new would be fine and
should exist on all the machines.  How do I do this?

On a related note, what variables/functions would be good as
conditionals if I do need some code only executed on certain
platforms?

Thanks,

 David

Re: default font for Mac, WinXP, and Linux?

[Elena]

On Dec 16, 12:32 am, unfrostedpoptart <da...@therogoffs.com> wrote:
> I'm stumped and need advice.  I'm running emacs 23.2.1 on Linux
> (Redhat Enterprise), Windows (XP-SP3), and Mac (OSX 10.6.5).
> I'm trying to use a common .emacs.d/init.el and can't get the default
> font to work across the 3 environments.  I just want them all to come
> up with a nice, fixed-width font.  courier-new would be fine and
> should exist on all the machines.  How do I do this?
>
> On a related note, what variables/functions would be good as
> conditionals if I do need some code only executed on certain
> platforms?
>
> Thanks,
>
>  David

C-h v system-type
C-h v window-system

Re: default font for Mac, WinXP, and Linux?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 16.12.2010 um 08:52 schrieb unfrostedpoptart:

>> I'm stumped and need advice.  I'm running emacs 23.2.1 on Linux
>> (Redhat Enterprise), Windows (XP-SP3), and Mac (OSX 10.6.5).
>> I'm trying to use a common .emacs.d/init.el and can't get the default
>> font to work across the 3 environments.  I just want them all to come
>> up with a nice, fixed-width font.  courier-new would be fine and
>> should exist on all the machines.  How do I do this?


Variables exist: system-type, window-system.

Lucida Sans Typewriter exists in Java. And Java is everywhere. You  
could also think of TeX. It has Latin Modern, the GNU FreeFonts,  
Inconsolata,...

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Greetings

   Pete

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Re: default font for Mac, WinXP, and Linux?

[Elena]

On Dec 16, 7:52 am, Elena <egarr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 16, 12:32 am, unfrostedpoptart <da...@therogoffs.com> wrote:
>
> > I'm stumped and need advice.  I'm running emacs 23.2.1 on Linux
> > (Redhat Enterprise), Windows (XP-SP3), and Mac (OSX 10.6.5).
> > I'm trying to use a common .emacs.d/init.el and can't get the default
> > font to work across the 3 environments.  I just want them all to come
> > up with a nice, fixed-width font.  courier-new would be fine and
> > should exist on all the machines.  How do I do this?
>
> > On a related note, what variables/functions would be good as
> > conditionals if I do need some code only executed on certain
> > platforms?
>
> > Thanks,
>
> >  David
>
> C-h v system-type
> C-h v window-system

That is:

C-h v system-type RET
C-h v window-system RET

Re: default font for Mac, WinXP, and Linux?

[unfrostedpoptart]

On Dec 16, 2:40 am, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 16.12.2010 um 08:52 schrieb unfrostedpoptart:
>
> >> I'm stumped and need advice.  I'm running emacs 23.2.1 on Linux
> >> (Redhat Enterprise), Windows (XP-SP3), and Mac (OSX 10.6.5).
> >> I'm trying to use a common .emacs.d/init.el and can't get the default
> >> font to work across the 3 environments.  I just want them all to come
> >> up with a nice, fixed-width font.  courier-new would be fine and
> >> should exist on all the machines.  How do I do this?
>
> Variables exist: system-type, window-system.
> Lucida Sans Typewriter exists in Java. And Java is everywhere. You  
> could also think of TeX. It has Latin Modern, the GNU FreeFonts,  
> Inconsolata,...

Thanks for the hints.  I had to do two things in my init.el.  First, I
added these lines:
(if (eq window-system 'x)    (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font
"Lucidatypewriter-10"))  ;; Linux
(if (eq window-system 'w32)  (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font
"Lucida Console-12"))    ;; WinXP
(if (eq window-system 'ns)   (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font
"lucidasanstypewriter-12"))  ;; Mac OSX

I also had to remove the font family and size references in the custom-
set-faces section added by the customize menus.

Re: default font for Mac, WinXP, and Linux?

[Andrea Crotti]

unfrostedpoptart <david@therogoffs.com> writes:

> I'm stumped and need advice.  I'm running emacs 23.2.1 on Linux
> (Redhat Enterprise), Windows (XP-SP3), and Mac (OSX 10.6.5).
> I'm trying to use a common .emacs.d/init.el and can't get the default
> font to work across the 3 environments.  I just want them all to come
> up with a nice, fixed-width font.  courier-new would be fine and
> should exist on all the machines.  How do I do this?
>
> On a related note, what variables/functions would be good as
> conditionals if I do need some code only executed on certain
> platforms?
>
> Thanks,
>
>  David

On OSX I think Monaco (which is the default) is the best.
On linux I like Inconsolata and on windows I don't know...
Does it have to be the same font anyway?

In general I also have the same configuration everywhere, but for these
kind of things also using the customization framework and an external
custom file is probably much easier...