Re: Please help me

[Kevin Rodgers]

youknowme wrote:

> I have been trying to use emacs 21.3, but the default font size is too
> small for me to see properly. I want to make the default font larger.
>
> I have searched through the online faq etc but cant find any explanation
> that i can understand. Can someone please help me with this?

One way is to specify the font as an X resource (assuming you're running
in the X window system).  Here's what I have in my ~/.Xdefaults file:

Emacs*Font:     -*-courier-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15

See the Font Specification Options section (aka the Font X node) of the
Emacs manual for a complete description of the components of an X
Logical Font Description: 120 above means 12.0 point size.

Another way is to specify the font as a frame parameter in your ~/.emacs file:

(setq default-frame-alist               ; and/or initial-frame-alist?
     '((font . "-*-courier-medium-r-*--*-120-*-*-*-*-iso8859-15")))

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Kevin Rodgers