From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: proper setting of default font (and string-handling in elisp?) Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:45:47 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20090826125914.5A87A1405BAA6@cedar.isis.unc.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v753.1) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1251296412 11546 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2009 14:20:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2009 14:20:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org, Tom Roche Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 26 16:20:05 2009 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 1MgJM1-0006Lv-5i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 16:20:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56113 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgJLz-0003Ci-Uv for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 10:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgIp6-0002ca-Sp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:46:01 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1MgIoy-0002aJ-Ly for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:45:57 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=50290 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1MgIox-0002Zi-9g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:45:51 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:52109) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MgIow-0000ws-HZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:45:51 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp05.web.de (fmsmtp05.dlan.cinetic.de [172.20.4.166]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id A01AA11530540; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:45:49 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [91.35.216.120] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp05.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #314) id 1MgIov-00054S-00; Wed, 26 Aug 2009 15:45:49 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20090826125914.5A87A1405BAA6@cedar.isis.unc.edu> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.753.1) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18TWQPEPo/zbD5/GGMT/sLZmD4hcxs+sSop8NVn pV3goOB+kajT34y1S9HOaD5P5DLMNQd/wnbm+Ii4waGBJt1uoW VIKzLqQdGjRgeOPx7urA== X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 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:67558 Archived-At: Am 26.08.2009 um 14:59 schrieb Tom Roche: > * font syntax: how to translate the font spec format that works for > set-frame-font (e.g. "Courier 10 Pitch-9") to that used for > initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist (e.g. > "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter")? I've created font sets to span (almost) the whole Unicode BMP (Basic Multilingual Plane): (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec "-b&h-lucidatypewriter-medium- r-*-*-10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" t 'noerror) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" 'latin- iso8859-1 '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-1")) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" 'latin- iso8859-2 '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-2")) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" 'latin- iso8859-3 '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-3")) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" 'latin- iso8859-4 '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-4")) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" 'latin- iso8859-9 '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-9")) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" 'latin- iso8859-14 '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-14")) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" 'latin- iso8859-15 '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso8859-15")) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" 'mule- unicode-0100-24ff '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso10646-1")) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" 'mule- unicode-2500-33ff '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso10646-1")) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" 'mule-unicode-e000- ffff '("lucidatypewriter" . "iso10646-1")) (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0590) (decode-char 'ucs #x05ff)) '("bpg glaho arial" . "iso10646-1")) ; Hebrew (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0600) (decode-char 'ucs #x06ff)) '("bpg glaho arial" . "iso10646-1")) ; Arabic (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x10a0) (decode-char 'ucs #x10ff)) '("bpg glaho" . "iso10646-1")) ; Georgian (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x2800) (decode-char 'ucs #x28ff)) '("code2000" . "iso10646-1")) ; Braille (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0980) (decode-char 'ucs #x09ff)) '("bangla" . "iso10646-1")) ; Bengali (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0a00) (decode-char 'ucs #x0a7f)) '("code2000" . "iso10646-1")) ; Gurmukhi (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0a80) (decode-char 'ucs #x0aff)) '("code2000" . "iso10646-1")) ; Gujarati (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0b00) (decode-char 'ucs #x0b7f)) '("code2000" . "iso10646-1")) ; Oriya (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0b80) (decode-char 'ucs #x0bff)) '("code2000" . "iso10646-1")) ; Tamil (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0c00) (decode-char 'ucs #x0c7f)) '("code2000" . "iso10646-1")) ; Telugu (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0c80) (decode-char 'ucs #x0cff)) '("code2000" . "iso10646-1")) ; Kannada (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0d00) (decode-char 'ucs #x0d7f)) '("code2000" . "iso10646-1")) ; Malayalam (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0d80) (decode-char 'ucs #x0dff)) '("akshar unicode" . "iso10646-1")) ; Sinhala (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0e00) (decode-char 'ucs #x0e7f)) '("code2000" . "iso10646-1")) ; Thai (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0e80) (decode-char 'ucs #x0eff)) '("code2000" . "iso10646-1")) ; Lao (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x0f00) (decode-char 'ucs #x0fff)) '("xtashi" . "iso10646-1")) ; Tibetan (when (= 23 ETyp) ; ETyp is approximately emacs-major-version (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" (cons (decode-char 'ucs #x1d400) (decode-char 'ucs #x1d7ff)) '("code2001" . "iso10646-1")) ; Mathe (set-fontset-font "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter" '(#x1D400 . #x1D7FF) (font-spec :family "Unicode Symbols") nil) ) This font set name can also be used as an initial parameter on the command line or as an X resource. (font . tlr-default-font) should work. By quoting the variable you make the variable's name (and not its contents) available. -- Greetings Pete Time is an illusion. Lunchtime, doubly so.