Re: Increase text size of echo area / mode line?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 24.05.2011 um 23:13 schrieb Johnny:

> > It seems that font names from the fontconfig service also work:
> >
> >         (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'gb18030
> > ("STFangsong". "unicode-
> > bmp")
> >
> > or, with a particular size:
> >
> >         (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'gb18030
> > ("STFangsong-16". "unicode-bmp")
>
> This is alternate methods, I assume?

It's more of a direct method of constructing a fontset.

> But where does STFangsong come from and what happened to big5?


"STFangsong" is the name of a TrueType font as reported by the  
fontconfig service (fc-list for example). "STFangsong-16" is the  
fontconfig specification of the STFangsong (normal, regular) font at  
16 pt size.

Once you've set up your own fontset, you can make it active by  
specifying it in default-frame-alist (there's also initial-frame- 
alist) in your init file:

    (setq default-frame-alist
      (append (list
        '(font . "fontset-10pt_lucida_sans_typewriter")
    ) default-frame-alist)))


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