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* Please help me
@ 2004-01-28 17:48 youknowme
  2004-01-28 18:46 ` J-P Theberge
  2004-01-28 19:04 ` Kevin Rodgers
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: youknowme @ 2004-01-28 17:48 UTC (permalink / raw)


I have been trying to use emacs 21.3, but the default font size is too
small for me to see properly. I want to make the default font larger.

I have searched through the online faq etc but cant find any explanation
that i can understand. Can someone please help me with this?

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* Re: Please help me
  2004-01-28 17:48 Please help me youknowme
@ 2004-01-28 18:46 ` J-P Theberge
  2004-01-28 19:04 ` Kevin Rodgers
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: J-P Theberge @ 2004-01-28 18:46 UTC (permalink / raw)


youknowme <ykm@home.net> writes:

> I have been trying to use emacs 21.3, but the default font size is too
> small for me to see properly. I want to make the default font larger.
> 
> I have searched through the online faq etc but cant find any explanation
> that i can understand. Can someone please help me with this?

S-mouse-1

-jp

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* Re: Please help me
  2004-01-28 17:48 Please help me youknowme
  2004-01-28 18:46 ` J-P Theberge
@ 2004-01-28 19:04 ` Kevin Rodgers
  1 sibling, 0 replies; 3+ messages in thread
From: Kevin Rodgers @ 2004-01-28 19:04 UTC (permalink / raw)


youknowme wrote:

> I have been trying to use emacs 21.3, but the default font size is too
> small for me to see properly. I want to make the default font larger.
> 
> I have searched through the online faq etc but cant find any explanation
> that i can understand. Can someone please help me with this?

One way is to specify the font as an X resource (assuming you're running
in the X window system).  Here's what I have in my ~/.Xdefaults file:

Emacs*Font:	-*-courier-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15

See the Font Specification Options section (aka the Font X node) of the
Emacs manual for a complete description of the components of an X
Logical Font Description: 120 above means 12.0 point size.

Another way is to specify the font as a frame parameter in your ~/.emacs file:

(setq default-frame-alist		; and/or initial-frame-alist?
      '((font . "-*-courier-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15")))

-- 
Kevin Rodgers

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