How to Get a Font Loaded Automatically on Start Up

How to Get a Font Loaded Automatically on Start Up

[kvnsmnsn]

When I bring up an Emacs window I can click on <Options>, select
<Set Font/Fontset...> from the menu, and then select <Courier > 10> to
get precisely the font I want.  But I have to do this every time I
bring up an Emacs window.  Is there something I can put in my ".emacs"
file that will do this automatically for me every time I bring up an
Emacs window?  Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.

                                ---Kevin Simonson

"You'll never get to heaven, or even to LA,
if you don't believe there's a way."
from _Why Not_

Re: How to Get a Font Loaded Automatically on Start Up

[weber]

On Sep 29, 3:10 pm, kvnsm...@hotmail.com wrote:
> When I bring up an Emacs window I can click on <Options>, select
> <Set Font/Fontset...> from the menu, and then select <Courier > 10> to
> get precisely the font I want.  But I have to do this every time I
> bring up an Emacs window.  Is there something I can put in my ".emacs"
> file that will do this automatically for me every time I bring up an
> Emacs window?  Any information on this would be greatly appreciated.
>
>                                 ---Kevin Simonson
>
> "You'll never get to heaven, or even to LA,
> if you don't believe there's a way."
> from _Why Not_

What do you mean by "bring up an emacs window" ?
-weber

Re: How to Get a Font Loaded Automatically on Start Up

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 30.09.2007 um 15:10 schrieb kvnsm...@hotmail.com:

> Is there something I can put in my ".emacs" file that will do this  
> automatically for me every time I bring up an Emacs window?

	(setq initial-frame-alist '(
	  (border-color     . "#4e3832")
	  (foreground-color . "grey10")
	  (background-color . "AliceBlue")
	  (active-alpha     . 0.875)
	  (inactive-alpha   . 0.75)
	  (font . "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter")
	  (top . 5) (left . 500) (width . 106) (height . 50)
	  )
	)

There is also default-frame-alist.

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Re: How to Get a Font Loaded Automatically on Start Up

[kvnsmnsn]

Weber posted:

=What do you mean by "bring up an emacs window" ?

     At my Unix prompt I type in "emacs EmacsFont.Txt &", and an Emacs
window comes up on my terminal, with a font size of about 12.  What I
want is a font size of 10.  I can always change its font size using
the <Set Font/Fontset...> menu I mentioned, but it would be nice if I
could get that font size to come up automatically, when the Emacs edi-
tor first brings up the window.  Anybody know how to do that?

                                ---Kevin Simonson

"You'll never get to heaven, or even to LA,
if you don't believe there's a way."
from _Why Not_

Re: How to Get a Font Loaded Automatically on Start Up

[Giacomo Boffi]

kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com writes:
>      At my Unix prompt I type in "emacs EmacsFont.Txt &", and an Emacs
> window comes up on my terminal, with a font size of about 12.  What
> I want is a font size of 10.  I can always change its font size
> using the <Set Font/Fontset...> menu I mentioned, but it would be
> nice if I could get that font size to come up automatically, when
> the Emacs edi- tor first brings up the window.  Anybody know how to
> do that?

(info "(emacs)X resources")
  /------------------------^
  | put the cursor after the right ) and press C-x C-e

Re: How to Get a Font Loaded Automatically on Start Up

[Steven L.]

kvnsmnsn@hotmail.com wrote:
> When I bring up an Emacs window I can click on <Options>, select
> <Set Font/Fontset...> from the menu, and then select <Courier > 10> to
> get precisely the font I want.  But I have to do this every time I
> bring up an Emacs window.  Is there something I can put in my ".emacs"
> file that will do this automatically for me every time I bring up an
> Emacs window? 

The function that I use is "custom-set-faces"
But you don't even have to code it yourself in your .emacs file.

You can use the Edit Options... feature.  Find the Basic Faces 
customization group, set the font and fontsize to whatever you want, and 
then select State:Save for future sessions.
That will append a call to "custom-set-faces" to your .emacs file, so 
that it will be invoked the next time you start emacs.

BTW, when you change the fontsize and font, you may also want to change 
the default size of the window that comes up too.  I use a big fontsize 
of 120 (my eyes aren't what they used to be), so I have to make the 
window have fewer characters.  In my .emacs file I added

(set-frame-parameter nil 'height 34)
(set-frame-parameter nil 'width 84)

to make emacs come up in a 34 x 84 window every time.


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