Re: Setting face-font in Carbon Emacs 21.3.50.1

[Tim McNamara]

Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> On Sun, 06 Mar 2005 18:24:06 -0600, Tim McNamara <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Trying to get it to use Lucida Grande, I put
>> 
>> (set-face-font 'default "-apple-lucida
>> grande-medium-r-normal--12-140-75-75-m-120-mac-roman")
>
> You usually shouldn't use `set-face-font'; instead set the various
> other face attributes.
>
> In elisp (though most people would use customize I guess), try this:
>
>    (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "lucida grande" :height
>    120)
>
> [Maybe leave out the ":height" if the default is OK]

Thatk you, I'll give that a try.  The problem with using customize is
that it is often not, well, very comprehensible.  It's frankly easier
to make many changes just writing something into .emacs by hand.