From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: recommended font for emacs xft Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:14:14 +0200 Organization: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quark Message-ID: References: <87vebhgc3z.fsf@pu100877.student.princeton.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1187196045 4350 80.91.229.12 (15 Aug 2007 16:40:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:40:45 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 15 18:40:42 2007 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 1ILLvB-0007DN-Tf for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ILLvB-0001jY-EB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Aug 2007 12:40:37 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 23 Original-X-Trace: individual.net zNmVTuMl1TQTEHoNNSnlHAKdgvPqElEf+GTbWBpC0qs9ikE2Bs X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZHBsol0KkC2VxaPE22xN5Ywzwuw= sha1:7m+UKPqSpbjiutZMEMHiBTnL2q8= Face: iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAADAAAAAwBAMAAAClLOS0AAAAGFBMVEUPDQ1bVEeWcSHosxDD ojimpJ76+vnczqjhNce/AAAACXBIWXMAAABIAAAASABGyWs+AAAB6UlEQVQ4y22UvW4TQRDHf7P2 paG4vSTuDwMlQgJRUfiIEC22gqnT2G/AcySU4AJTX4EfgMI8AMISdRTTEpRdu/MHWYq9r/g8zWr3 d/+Z2ZnZU8PCBv1+uRkqcnOjNB3ZYlsAGQEu1TWwBhB3UQOhXzY1MAZwOL0LcpvXQAQSwbQGhl15 PyiVBQg+CX8+d7E1hUPbv3sUL5Jf7cXBtA6mzZDl4z2K5CeAxu2/h2VbD251dEQQ6t0Yz5wT3dvY i7vALQ5Pj56GzaKMOdgcMMcgGmerQMZvXBQBZzCpghU6T4u1roCxeCAt4EMJNjBHQG5/a1iVwNDS OHASdr2/IqskW6WFD+/BJMhbzVLA5cAhZWVC2OZgSyGApKIwnO0WGQXIpOg0EJe1Wlc95YPls1pQ MwXQ1vruaexBI7r/pTj7MQMBFBJdIasiuo6hMQPF5TcLcf5iBAtPLCi5Ami6cw9urWo/QED5VF28 8c4OtWjNVhfV1dn838wR4Dsqe0KNoAtA6i++nSnJbnoCwD2bpZeof1k61xbk+jyrjlRGNE3Tj1+z xjRPrJIw+8gZA7g50OxYlDx/6YwFS9SLelHkENOxoDDLR6cuNOZdv9Vv9bvW3DzMp8QtXmnz2jsM EoK47AfHg+yXwfHbDgD/AWsIohF8qgD0AAAAGnpUWHRKUEVHLUNvbG9yc3BhY2UAAHjaMwIAADMA MxEWfmMAAAAqelRYdEpQRUctU2FtcGxpbmctZmFjdG9ycwAAeNozqjDSMaww1DGsMAQAEYMC6QbE yigAAAAASUVORK5CYII= User-Agent: Gnus/5.110007 (No Gnus v0.7) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:150997 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:46570 Archived-At: Tamas Papp 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 (setq default-frame-alist (quote ((background-mode . dark) (border-color . "black") (cursor-color . "LightGray") (mouse-color . "Grey") (background-color . "darkslategrey") (foreground-color . "wheat") (font . "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--13-120-*-*-*-*-*-*")))) Which translates to (set-default-font "-bitstream-bitstream vera sans mono-medium-r-normal--13-120-*-*-*-*-*-*") Excellent.