From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Joe Schafer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting the global default font size. Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:16:57 -0500 Message-ID: <87prhwtwhi.fsf@gmail.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233868669 22321 80.91.229.12 (5 Feb 2009 21:17:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2009 21:17:49 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 05 22:19:04 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LVBch-0002Ks-4N for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:18:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49002 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVBbO-000484-2Z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:17:38 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVBb0-00043y-5G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:17:14 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LVBax-0003xG-3D for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:17:13 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56249 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LVBaw-0003wv-Qo for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:38955 helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LVBaw-0004bI-EN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:17:10 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1LVBas-0007YS-Ey for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:17:06 +0000 Original-Received: from 134.240.88.26 ([134.240.88.26]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:17:06 +0000 Original-Received: from joesmoe10 by 134.240.88.26 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:17:06 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 24 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 134.240.88.26 User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5nQ3Lu/+gm5eWQYnFhkPhGMy+jE= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:61934 Archived-At: Tim Visher writes: > Hello Everyone, > > I'm interested in setting the global font size but I'm not sure how to > do that. I tried messing around in Easy Customization in the Faces > section but that screwed up my default frame sizing for some reason. > > Any thoughts? Also, I'm really interested in using Clear Type fonts. > Can you do this in Emacs? Here's what I have in my init file. This sets it for all frames. (modify-all-frames-parameters '((font . "-microsoft-consolas-medium-r-*-*-*-110-*-*-*-*-iso8859-1"))) Though for emacs23 you can write it as: (modify-all-frames-parameters '((font . "Consolas-11"))) I know emacs 23 supports font antialiasing and I think emacs on windows uses clear type.