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From: rustom <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Setting Font/FontSet
Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:44:35 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <72f93a64-2fc2-4522-999e-85dbdb98b517@z24g2000prf.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.10028.1207385878.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org

On Apr 5, 1:57 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> Am 05.04.2008 um 06:05 schrieb rustom:
>
> >> That's not possible - at least not in GNU Emacs. Here one frame can
> >> use only one font or fontset. You might think of creating some
> >> hundred frames, each using a different font or fontset. Best filter
> >> all proportional fonts. They're mostly useful for novels or
> >> newspapers. Monospaced fonts are probably the proper choice for GNU
> >> Emacs.
>
> > Any likelihood of this changing -- say in emacs 23 ??
>
> Why should this change? Do you want to learn commands to set font or  
> fontset properties plus colours effects for text particles or do you  
> want to programme or write something?

Yeah. I dont want and dont know how to do all this. But an eclipse
display with the file pane in a distinctly smaller font than the
program pane is not just pleasanter to look at but is more efficient
in the use of screen real-estate.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-05 15:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-31 12:43 Setting Font/FontSet Pavol Murin
2008-03-31 17:40 ` Paulo J. Matos
2008-03-31 18:49   ` Peter Dyballa
2008-03-31 20:46     ` Paulo J. Matos
2008-04-02  9:28       ` Peter Dyballa
     [not found]       ` <mailman.9854.1207128545.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-05  4:05         ` rustom
2008-04-05  8:57           ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-05 13:45           ` Jason Rumney
     [not found]           ` <mailman.10028.1207385878.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-04-05 15:44             ` rustom [this message]
2008-04-05 18:07               ` Peter Dyballa
2008-04-06 22:41                 ` Paulo J. Matos
2008-03-31 19:31   ` Joel J. Adamson
2008-03-31 20:52     ` Pavol Murin
2008-03-31 19:21 ` Joel J. Adamson
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-03-31 12:35 Paulo J. Matos

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