Re: Changing the default font on the fly

[Bill White]

On Sat Jun 23 2012 at 16:18, Eddie <penguinismo@almostconnecticut.net> wrote:

> I would like to get a hunk of code that is the functional equivalent
> to Options | Set Default Font | Droid Sans Regular 12.

I do this:

,----[ ~/.emacs ]
| (set-default-font "-unknown-DejaVu Sans 
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
`----

To get that long crazy string that describes the font, I tried lots of
fonts via Set Default Font til I found one I liked, then put the cursor
on one of its characters and typed C-u C-x = to get this information
(the string you need is after "xft:" and does not include the mysterious
stuff in parens on that line):

,----
|              position: 853 of 1002 (85%), restriction: <0-144>, column: 1003
|             character: o (displayed as o) (codepoint 111, #o157, #x6f)
|     preferred charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
| code point in charset: 0x6F
|                syntax: w      which means: word
|              category: .:Base, L:Left-to-right (strong), a:ASCII, l:Latin, 
r:Roman
|           buffer code: #x6F
|             file code: #x6F (encoded by coding system utf-8-emacs-unix)
|               display: by this font (glyph code)
|     xft:-unknown-DejaVu Sans 
Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-14-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 (#x52)
| 
| Character code properties: customize what to show
|   name: LATIN SMALL LETTER O
|   general-category: Ll (Letter, Lowercase)
|   canonical-combining-class: 0 (Spacing, split, enclosing, reordrant, and 
Tibetan subjoined)
|   bidi-class: L (Left-to-Right)
|   decomposition: (111) ('o')
|   mirrored: N
|   uppercase: 79 (O)
|   titlecase: 79 (O)
| 
| There are text properties here:
|   fontified            t
| 
| [back]
`----

Cheers -

bw
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