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I'm using emacs23.4 on windows 7.

Here's an example configuration:

(setq face-font-family-alternatives '(("myfamily" "anonymous pro")))
(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "myfamily")

I expect this should cause the default font to be set to "anonymous pro", b=
ut it seems to ignore whatever I set for face-font-family-alternative and b=
ehaves according to its default value instead (I always get courier or aria=
l). Although setting family to "anonymous pro" directly does work. How can =
I get the expected behavior?