From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "B. T. Raven" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Boldifing all faces? Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:28:32 -0600 Message-ID: References: <8480d7ee-c0e1-4d94-a0eb-e84b93493b8e@j38g2000yqa.googlegroups.com> <3aba6921-5906-42f2-bdc8-68a4efb17d9c@c11g2000yqj.googlegroups.com> <40c9e81a-77c7-43a7-bfc7-afd68b054855@j39g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1238111004 16788 80.91.229.12 (26 Mar 2009 23:43:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 23:43:24 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 27 00:44:41 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 1LmzFZ-0008Pj-2o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Mar 2009 00:44:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:36538 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LmzEC-0005pl-3i for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 19:43:16 -0400 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!border2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!backlog2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.cpinternet!news.posted.cpinternet.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:26:58 -0500 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <40c9e81a-77c7-43a7-bfc7-afd68b054855@j39g2000yqn.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 33 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.61.220.239 Original-X-Trace: sv3-StKjPA9vUlabHu9tLNdqp+N8wpHAtuJTFugeYvpORWuhWBqUJoI73wwYB5Xldce6mSPTDkzr9ya7yop!9daU5OC85updK0ZjnjxB7dI2QsGMf4D4wK8io+HeOcoQf8eoveNZ2cUxqJkkVTniBjHx9CYRIzjr!NPOXuDtOI8zX9MbH8vA= Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@cpinternet.com X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@cpinternet.com X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39 X-Original-Bytes: 2907 Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:168026 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:63314 Archived-At: Elena wrote: > On 26 Mar, 17:08, "Drew Adams" 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