Re: Setting default fonts

[Chuck Siska]

chuck --

to see all the available fonts, first select a buffer into which
you don't mind entering text (e.g., the *scratch* buffer).  now
enter the following lisp expression in that buffer:

(insert (prin1-to-string (x-list-fonts "*")))

place the text cursor at the end of this lisp expression and type
M-x eval-print-last-sexp.

you should see a parenthesized list like the following appear immediately
after that lisp expression.  each entry, in double-qoutes, is a
font description.  (note, i've shortened my output list, here,
from my own 880 entries to just the two shown.

("-*-Mini Pics Red Rock-normal-r-*-*-*-*-96-96-p-*-iso8859-1" "-*-Mini Pics Lil
Vehicles-normal-r-*-*-*-*-96-96-p-*-iso8859-1")

now, i setup my initial font in emacs by executing the following
lisp expressions when i'm running emacs on mswind.  These are
executed automatically in my _emacs (or .emacs) file when emacs
starts up, but you can execute them by hand if you wish.  note,
that i've taken a liberty, here, of replacing some of the font
description elements with a "*" wildcard, but you can just use
one of the font descriptions directly.

; set font to terminal, regular, 6 point.
(setq cs-default-font "-*-Terminal-normal-r-*-*-8-60-*-*-c-*-*-oem-")

(progn
  (setq initial-frame-alist
        (append `((font . ,cs-default-font))
                initial-frame-alist))
  (setq default-frame-alist
        (append `((font . ,cs-default-font))
                default-frame-alist)))

good luck.

-- chuck

Charles Muller wrote:
> 
>  Marco Baringer helpfully advised:
> 
> >
> > M-x set-default-font TAB
> >
> > will give you all the fonts available. this is kind of hackish, but it
> > works.
> 
> My apologies for my denseness--I am completely new to Emacs, and am 
> struggling.
> 
> When I do like the above, I then get a request for information like
> 
>   Font name:
> 
> But I don't know what I am supposed to input here.
> 
> When I do this:
> 
> > (insert (frame-parameter nil 'font))
> 
> Then, when I start Emacs, the first thing I get is a listing of an Adobe 
> Courier 12 point font. But I don't know what I should do with this. Is there 
> any chance that I could get you to explain just a bit further. I think I am 
> almost there (I have gotten XML validation working, MEW working, and Japanese 
> input working, so I should be able to work through this matter of default 
> fonts!)
> 
> Thanks much,
> 
> Chuck
> 
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