Re: default font for Mac, WinXP, and Linux?

[Elena]

On Dec 16, 12:32 am, unfrostedpoptart <da...@therogoffs.com> wrote:
> I'm stumped and need advice.  I'm running emacs 23.2.1 on Linux
> (Redhat Enterprise), Windows (XP-SP3), and Mac (OSX 10.6.5).
> I'm trying to use a common .emacs.d/init.el and can't get the default
> font to work across the 3 environments.  I just want them all to come
> up with a nice, fixed-width font.  courier-new would be fine and
> should exist on all the machines.  How do I do this?
>
> On a related note, what variables/functions would be good as
> conditionals if I do need some code only executed on certain
> platforms?
>
> Thanks,
>
>  David

C-h v system-type
C-h v window-system