Re: Different fonts per region

[tomas]

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On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 11:52:52AM +0100, henry atting wrote:
> Okay, I can change the font per buffer, frame, mode or set another
> default font.
> Is it also possible to set the font per region, say have three different
> regions in a buffer with three different fonts?
> Just to know if it's possible; outside emacs it would be of little avail
> anyway.

Yes. There are basically two mechanisms you can attach attributes to:
"text properties" and "overlays". In both cases one of those properties
is a "face" property, which (among many other things like colours)
determines the font this text is to be displayed with. This face
property is either a name of some previously defined thing or a
list of name-value pairs for each of the properties.

See the relevant part in the Emacs Lisp manual, either in your local
copy or possibly online here[1] [2] [3]

[1] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Text-Properties.html#Text-Properties
[2] 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Special-Properties.html#Special-Properties
[3] https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Faces.html#Faces

> 
> henry
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