From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-default-font
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2020 07:03:27 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <838se03fcg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <SN6PR01MB4493DC883328C417C19013B79B550@SN6PR01MB4493.prod.exchangelabs.com> (message from David Masterson on Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:59:35 -0700)
> From: David Masterson <dsmasterson92630@outlook.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 18:59:35 -0700
>
> > Try different values until you find one that works for you. In
> > general, I'd expect any value to work, unless if you use bitmapped
> > fonts, where maybe only certain discrete values will work.
>
> Hunting for proper values is not exactly very friendly.
You usually don't need to, as I explained.
> set-default-font is the only command in the standard "Options" menu for
> Emacs and, therefore, the one most likely to be used. It seems, though,
> that set-default-font has different forms depending on how Emacs is
> compiled. I suspect (but would like to know more) that it has one form
> if compiled with the X libraries and another without X. The form with X
> (for me) put an X box for "Font Menu" with only 3 options (Misc,
> Courier, and Fontset) which I can't figure how to use. The form without
> X seemed to put up a dialog box that allowed you to pick fonts while
> seeing examples of the font which was much easier.
>
> I'm not a fonts person, so it's difficult for me to figure out the best
> way of compiling Gnu Emacs 26.3 to make the most of fonts.
>
> Any help?
I don't think I understand what exactly are you asking. You started
by describing the menu for selecting the default font, but ended by
asking a much more general question regarding building Emacs. I don't
see the connection, because the default build of Emacs on any platform
always makes the most use of the available fonts on that platform.
I also don't understand what does "without X" mean in this context.
And finally, your description of what menu-set-font (the menu item in
"Options" -> "Set default font") does is AFAIK inaccurate: the "easy"
font selection dialog should pop when the x-select-font function is
available, whereas your description seems to indicate to the contrary.
So I'm confused by the question and the details you described.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-27 4:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-25 16:54 set-default-font ken
2020-08-25 17:13 ` set-default-font Stefan Kangas
2020-08-25 18:27 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 18:32 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-25 20:38 ` set-default-font ken
2020-08-25 20:49 ` set-default-font 2QdxY4RzWzUUiLuE
2020-08-25 22:15 ` set-default-font ken
2020-08-26 5:44 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-27 1:59 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-27 4:03 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-27 4:47 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-27 8:24 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 2:07 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-28 2:39 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-28 6:43 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-28 10:52 ` set-default-font Robert Pluim
2020-08-28 23:38 ` set-default-font David Masterson
2020-08-29 8:37 ` set-default-font Robert Pluim
2020-08-26 5:42 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-26 5:40 ` set-default-font Eli Zaretskii
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