From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: font selection Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 10:51:24 -0600 Organization: IHS Message-ID: References: <87mzd13zhy.fsf@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1149008163 8600 80.91.229.2 (30 May 2006 16:56:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:56:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 30 18:56:02 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fl7VL-00011W-D2 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 18:55:39 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fl7VL-0006Ds-1R for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 12:55:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fl7V8-0006Dn-UX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 12:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fl7V7-0006CB-15 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 12:55:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fl7V6-0006C8-UY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 12:55:24 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.229.2] (helo=ciao.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1Fl7aw-0001lR-65 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 13:01:26 -0400 Original-Received: from root by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1Fl7Um-0000ru-VL for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 30 May 2006 18:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from 207.167.42.206 ([207.167.42.206]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 18:55:04 +0200 Original-Received: from ihs_4664 by 207.167.42.206 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 30 May 2006 18:55:04 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Lines: 18 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.167.42.206 User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.2 (Windows/20060308) In-Reply-To: <87mzd13zhy.fsf@localhost.localdomain> 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:35291 Archived-At: Gary Wessle wrote: > I am trying to replace the font I now see using emacs to > -bitstream-bitstream charter-medium-*-normal-*-17-120-*-*-*-0-iso8859-1 > which I got using xfontsel. > now in *Customize Group: Basic Faces* I donot have all those > attributes in-order to set, the attributes I was expecting are what I > notices from xfontsel, > fndry-fmly-wght-slant-sWdth-adstyl-pxlsz-ptSz-resx-resy-spc-avgWdth-rgstry-encodng > > what should I do? Put this in your $HOME/.Xdefaults file: Emacs*Font: -bitstream-bitstream charter-medium-*-normal-*-17-120-*-*-*-0-iso8859-1 -- Kevin