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From: Tamas Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: recommended font for emacs xft
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:15:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ps1og76z.fsf@pu100877.student.princeton.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3r6m44zmg.fsf@Bellerophon.localdomain

Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@comcast.net> writes:

> Tamas Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am happy using the alpha version of Emacs23 with the xft extension.
>> However, I could not find a font that is just "right": Monospace-11
>> looks very "weak".  I am looking for something not to tall (number of
>> horizontal lines is important so I can fit more code on a screen).
>> set-default-font snippets are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tamas
>
> Hi Tamas,
>
> I have used:
>
>   1. Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
>
>   2. Liberation Mono
>
>   3. DejaVu Sans Mono
>
> They are pretty interchangeable for the most part, but there will be
> some subtle differences in some font lock modes. I use a height
> setting of 120 in my .emacs. There are sizes, at least for me wearing
> bifocals at age 49, where any font is too small, so personal preference and
> visual acuity may impact upon how small you can go.
>
> Try them and see what you prefer.
>
> They look great in R/ESS with 23 as well.  Here is a quick screen grab
> of 23, using ECB/psvn.el while editing .r and .rnw files:
>
>   http://home.comcast.net/~marc_schwartz/Emacs23.png
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz

Hi Marc,

Could you please post the relevant part of your .emacs?  Currently
mine looks like

(set-default-font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10.5")

but I don't know how to set the height independently of the font size.

Tamas

  reply	other threads:[~2007-08-15 15:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-08-15 13:29 recommended font for emacs xft Tamas Papp
2007-08-15 14:54 ` Marc Schwartz
2007-08-15 15:15   ` Tamas Papp [this message]
2007-08-15 15:28     ` Marc Schwartz
2007-08-15 16:13 ` Peter Dyballa
2007-08-15 16:14 ` Hadron

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