From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: rustom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Setting Font/FontSet Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 08:44:35 -0700 (PDT) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <72f93a64-2fc2-4522-999e-85dbdb98b517@z24g2000prf.googlegroups.com> References: <11b141710803311040k641d8dd9o12f9d50c4034fb5e@mail.gmail.com> <5209DE70-C3AF-47D7-AFF6-2E83E103B77F@Web.DE> <11b141710803311346ndd17e9dk358ddca6323daef6@mail.gmail.com> <46c1ae35-4fdb-4b30-81c6-dadb0891e0ae@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1207413663 10171 80.91.229.12 (5 Apr 2008 16:41:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:41:03 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 05 18:41:35 2008 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 1JiBSN-0007zm-Iw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 18:41:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JiBRk-0000La-Pw for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 05 Apr 2008 12:40:52 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!z24g2000prf.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 20 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 59.95.6.227 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1207410275 9824 127.0.0.1 (5 Apr 2008 15:44:35 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 15:44:35 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: z24g2000prf.googlegroups.com; posting-host=59.95.6.227; posting-account=mBpa7woAAAAGLEWUUKpmbxm-Quu5D8ui User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9b5) Gecko/2008032619 Firefox/3.0b5,gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:157716 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:53088 Archived-At: On Apr 5, 1:57=A0pm, Peter Dyballa wrote: > Am 05.04.2008 um 06:05 schrieb rustom: > > >> That's not possible - at least not in GNU Emacs. Here one frame can > >> use only one font or fontset. You might think of creating some > >> hundred frames, each using a different font or fontset. Best filter > >> all proportional fonts. They're mostly useful for novels or > >> newspapers. Monospaced fonts are probably the proper choice for GNU > >> Emacs. > > > Any likelihood of this changing -- say in emacs 23 ?? > > Why should this change? Do you want to learn commands to set font or =A0 > fontset properties plus colours effects for text particles or do you =A0 > want to programme or write something? Yeah. I dont want and dont know how to do all this. But an eclipse display with the file pane in a distinctly smaller font than the program pane is not just pleasanter to look at but is more efficient in the use of screen real-estate.