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Re: proper setting of default font (and string-handling in elisp?)
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Tom Roche |
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Re: proper setting of default font (and string-handling in elisp?) |
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Wed, 26 Aug 2009 08:59:14 -0400 (EDT) |
Tom Roche Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:11:44 -0400 (EDT)
>> [I'm] wanting to set my default font for every frame[,] in init.el.
>> How to do so properly?
Peter Dyballa Wed, 26 Aug 2009 09:44:36 +0200
> (setq initial-frame-alist
> (append (list
> '(border-color . "#4e3832")
> '(foreground-color . "grey10")
> '(background-color . "AliceBlue")
> '(active-alpha . 0.875)
> '(inactive-alpha . 0.75)
> '(font . "fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter")
> '(top . 136) '(left . 666) '(width . 100) '(height . 57)
> ) initial-frame-alist))
> There is also default-frame-alist.
Thanks, that looks good. However I'm still confused about
* font syntax: how to translate the font spec format that works for
set-frame-font (e.g. "Courier 10 Pitch-9") to that used for
initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist (e.g.
"fontset-10pt_lucidatypewriter")? I've looked @, e.g.,
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Initial-Parameters.html
but I'm not seeing where these font-related formats are documented.
Is there a .el file @ which I should look?
* variable usage: how to set the font spec in one or more variables
and use those in the list? E.g., presuming the string inside the
variable was correct, would either of
(font . tlr-default-font)
(font . 'tlr-default-font)
be appropriate? I'm sure it's in the GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual
somewhere, but am not sure where to look.
TIA, Tom Roche <Tom_Roche@pobox.com>