From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Haines Brown <haines@histomat.net>, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: RE: setting default font name
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 06:35:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a5503bc6-0831-4044-8330-815f59f523fc@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87egzrz5c2.fsf@bach.histomat.net>
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist 'font . '-bitstream-Courier 10
> Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 ))
> (set-face-attribute 'default t :font
> -bitstream-Courier 10
> Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 ))
>
> But this produces error: "Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context"
>
> I try:
> (set default-font "-bitstream-Courier 10
> Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
>
> and get eror Symbol's value as variable is void: default-font.
* Your parens do not match - in either of the examples you gave.
* The value to add to list `default-frame-alist' is a cons: (font . THE-FONT).
* The `font' frame parameter value (i.e., THE-FONT) must be a string:
(add-to-list
'default-frame-alist
'(font .
"-bitstream-Courier 10 Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"))
(set-face-attribute
'default t :font
"-bitstream-Courier 10 Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
The EmacsWiki page you looked at, http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts,
is correct. You just need to read it a bit more carefully.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-18 13:35 UTC|newest]
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2014-05-18 11:36 setting default font name Haines Brown
2014-05-18 13:35 ` Drew Adams [this message]
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2014-05-18 21:11 ` Haines Brown
2014-05-18 21:57 ` Michael Heerdegen
2014-05-18 22:03 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1582.1400450623.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-19 11:09 ` Haines Brown
2014-05-19 13:47 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1604.1400507269.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-19 15:05 ` Haines Brown
2014-05-19 15:45 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1615.1400514331.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-19 18:56 ` Haines Brown
2014-05-19 20:51 ` Drew Adams
[not found] ` <mailman.1639.1400532700.1147.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2014-05-20 10:14 ` Jacob Gerlach
2014-05-20 10:58 ` Haines Brown
2014-05-19 19:30 ` Hans BKK
2014-05-20 13:32 ` Hans BKK
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