How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?

How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?

[hap 497]

Hi,

How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?
I am using emacs , not aquamacs. How can I switch to use a different
font in my .emacs file?

Thank you.

Re: How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?

[Will Willis]

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try poking around in

M-x customize

or perhaps

 M-x customize-group [RET] faces [RET]

-Will

On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:39 PM, hap 497 <hap497@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?
> I am using emacs , not aquamacs. How can I switch to use a different
> font in my .emacs file?
>
> Thank you.
>
>
>

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Re: How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?

[Chryssochoidis Christos]

On 12 Νοε 2009, at 7:39 π.μ., hap 497 wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?
> I am using emacs , not aquamacs. How can I switch to use a different
> font in my .emacs file?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> 


I have in .emacs

> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "Menlo-11"))

where "Menlo" and "11" are my preferences for the font and the size respectively.


Hope that helps.

-- C.

Re: How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 13.11.2009 um 03:28 schrieb Will Willis:

>> How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?
>> I am using emacs , not aquamacs. How can I switch to use a different
>> font in my .emacs file?

You can set them in initial- and default-frame-alist:

	(setq initial-frame-alist
	  (append (list
	    '(border-color      . "#4e3832")
	    '(foreground-color  . "grey10")
	    '(background-color  . "AliceBlue")
	    '(active-alpha      . 0.875)
	    '(inactive-alpha    . 0.75)
	    '(font . "fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter")
	    '(top . 136) '(left . 666) '(width . 100) '(height . 57)
	  ) initial-frame-alist))

To find a suitable font (maybe save that huge list in *completions*  
buffer):

	M-x set-frame-font RET TAB TAB

Miles Bader wrote list-fonts-display, which shows the name of the  
fonts using the font.

--
Greetings

   Pete

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Re: How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?

[Gregory J. Grubbs]

hap 497 <hap497@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> How to specify font for emacs on MacOSX?
> I am using emacs , not aquamacs. How can I switch to use a different
> font in my .emacs file?
>
> Thank you.

To get the standard OS X font selection, you can use M-x menu-set-font

I have the following in my init file, set to use Inconsolata font on
wherever I can:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
(cond ((or (eq window-system 'mac) (eq window-system 'ns))
      (set-face-font 'default '"-apple-inconsolata-medium-r-normal--16-0-72-72-m-0-iso10646-1"))
      ((and (eq window-system 'x) (eq emacs-major-version 23))
       (set-face-font 'default '"-unknown-Inconsolata-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
       (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist '(font . "-unknown-Inconsolata-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"))
       )
      ((eq window-system 'x)
       (set-face-font 'default '"10x20")))
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---