From: Joost Diepenmaat <joost@zeekat.nl>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: defining default face
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:03:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <873akampe1.fsf@zeekat.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.18749.1220899993.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu> writes:
> At Mon, 08 Sep 2008 09:53:37 -0300 Rodrigo Canellas <rodrigo.canellas@tqtvd.com> wrote:
>
>> I used 'set-default-font' to choose
>> "-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--12-120-75-75-m-70-iso8859-1", but I
>> do not know how to edit '.emacs' to make it permanent... could anyone
>> help me?
>
> The simplest way is probably to use .Xresources (assuming you are
> using X). Mine is
>
> *Term*font2: 10x20
> *Emacs*font: -bitstream-Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-12-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1
> *Emacs*menuBar: off
> *Emacs*toolBar: 0
FWIW, I found that my CVS builds (23.0.60) I need to switch on XFT
explicitly or else it won't use anti-aliasing for the ttf fonts.
From my .Xresources:
Emacs*font: Inconsolata-13
Emacs.FontBackend: xft
--
Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-09-08 19:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-09-08 12:53 defining default face Rodrigo Canellas
2008-09-08 18:53 ` Allan Gottlieb
[not found] ` <mailman.18749.1220899993.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-08 19:03 ` Joost Diepenmaat [this message]
2008-09-08 20:42 ` Allan Gottlieb
[not found] ` <mailman.18756.1220906533.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-08 22:00 ` Joost Diepenmaat
2008-09-09 3:37 ` Allan Gottlieb
[not found] ` <mailman.18779.1220931446.18990.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2008-09-09 10:28 ` Joost Diepenmaat
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