Re: Boldifing all faces?

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

Elena wrote:
> On 26 Mar, 17:08, "Drew Adams" <drew.ad...@oracle.com> wrote:
>>>> can you boldify (make bold) all faces, without having to customize
>>>> each one?
>>> I've found out that setting the default font as bold works with some
>>> fonts (e.g. DejaVu Sans Mono), it doesn't with others (e.g. Lucida
>>> Console). Therefore I'll have to restrict my choices within fonts
>>> which work.
>> That's what I was trying to suggest in my reply to your initial post: It's not a
>> problem of MS Windows vs GNU/Linux, but a problem of fonts that don't have a
>> bold version (support for bold).
> 
> Well, within the font dialog I do see a bold variant for Lucida
> Console. It doesn't show for every font, therefore I thought it was
> meaningful. It I choose it, some faces will be bold, some not. BTW,
> the font dialog doesn't show all the True Type fonts I have on the
> system, whilst they work if passed to set-default-font; some fonts are
> shown yet they don't work; therefore I think font support in GNU Emacs
> Win32 is not full.
> 
> Well, at least on Windows we have a font dialog, whilst on Linux I had
> to investigate what fonts were available using other tools, then
> passing their string-ized specification to set-default-font. Not
> funny.
> 
> Thank you all for your kind replies
> 

To see more fonts add this to (custom-set-variables

  '(w32-list-proportional-fonts t)

Ed