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RE: setting default font name


From: Drew Adams
Subject: RE: setting default font name
Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 06:35:16 -0700 (PDT)

>   (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist 'font . '-bitstream-Courier 10
>     Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 ))
>   (set-face-attribute 'default t :font
>     -bitstream-Courier 10
>     Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1 ))
> 
>   But this produces error: "Invalid read syntax: ". in wrong context"
> 
> I try:
>   (set default-font "-bitstream-Courier 10
>     Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")
> 
> and get eror Symbol's value as variable is void: default-font.

* Your parens do not match - in either of the examples you gave.

* The value to add to list `default-frame-alist' is a cons: (font . THE-FONT).

* The `font' frame parameter value (i.e., THE-FONT) must be a string:

(add-to-list
  'default-frame-alist
  '(font . 
    "-bitstream-Courier 10 
Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"))

(set-face-attribute
  'default t :font
  "-bitstream-Courier 10 Pitch-normal-normal-normal-*-16-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1")

The EmacsWiki page you looked at, http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/SetFonts,
is correct.  You just need to read it a bit more carefully.



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