Re: How to get the new frame?

["B. T. Raven" <btraven@nihilo.net>]

Thanks, Eli. For a number of years I have thought that changing the font 
applied to all buffers. Was this ever true since ver. 20 or 21?
Anyway, your suggestion is certainly the right one to accomplish what I 
want, as long as I can set it up in .emacs.
Now I have:
"
buffer-face-mode-face is a variable defined in `face-remap.el'.
Its value is (:family "Courier New" :height 110)
Original value was variable-pitch
Local in buffer *Calendar*; global value is variable-pitch
"

I think the problem with mm height and width is due to Emacs assuming 72 
ppi (display-pixels-per-inch) rather than the true value of 120 ppi. 
(x-)display-pixel-height and -width return the correct values of 900 and 
1440 respectively.

Btw, are there other buffers besides calendar that need monospace to 
display correctly? I use proportional font even in .emacs merely for 
aesthetic reasons.

Thanks,

Ed

On 7/24/2015 2:13 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Javier <nospam@nospam.com>
>> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2015 22:38:35 +0000 (UTC)
>>
>> What does it give?
>>
>> M-: (x-display-list)
>>
>> I'm curious to see how displays are named in Win32.  It might not even work
>> as there is no X server in Win32.
>
> It works and returns ("w32").
>
> In general, all x-* functions do work on Windows in GUI sessions,
> because the Lisp application code is too replete with calls to these
> functions, so if they didn't work, many features would fail on Windows
> for no good reason.
>
> So you should always assume those functions work on Windows, unless
> there's no way they can be made workable.
>
>> I have never used proportional fonts in emacs.
>
> Emacs will load and use them behind your back anyway, when the default
> font doesn't support some special character.
>