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Re: [h-e-w] Favorite font for Emacs


From: Jason Lewis
Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Favorite font for Emacs
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 10:44:57 +1000
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I like Anonymous Pro

http://www.ms-studio.com/FontSales/anonymouspro.html

Jason

Fidler,Matt,FORT WORTH,R&D wrote:
> I like Inconsolata
> 
> http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html
> 
> Matt.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: address@hidden [mailto:address@hidden On Behalf Of Gary Oberbrunner
> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 3:01 PM
> To: Sarir Khamsi
> Cc: ntemacs
> Subject: Re: [h-e-w] Favorite font for Emacs
> 
> I'm a big fan of Droid Sans Mono Dotted at 10 point.  (Just google it)
> 
> Here's my .emacs stanza to load it:
> 
> (setq preferred-fonts
>       '(
>         ;; Droid Sans Mono: quite nice.
>         ;; 15 pixels total height at 10 point.  Clear & crisp.
>         ;; (e.g. http://www.fontex.org/download/Droid-sans-mono.ttf)
>         "Droid Sans Mono Dotted-10"
>         "Droid Sans Mono-10"
>         ;; Consolas: download installer from Microsoft.
>         ;; Quite beautiful and renders nicely, but a little light.
>         ;; Pretty similar to Droid Sans Mono.
>         ;; The slanted verticals on the capital M annoy me a little.
>         ;; (16 pixels height)
>         "Consolas-10.5"
>         ;; Inconsolata: lots of people like this.
>         ;; http://www.levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html:
>         ;; about same size as Consolas-10.5, but thicker and less leading
>         ;; (17 pixels height) and not as smooth lines.  Feels chunky.
>         "Inconsolata-12"
>         ;; default
>         "Courier New-10.5"))
> (defun find-first-font (list)
>   (cond ((null list)
>          nil)
>         ((x-list-fonts (car list))
>          (message (concat "Using font " (car list)))
>          (car list))
>         (t                              ; recurse
>          (find-first-font (cdr list)))
>         ))
> ; set default font attributes (for all frames)
> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font (find-first-font preferred-fonts))
> 
> 
> -- Gary
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Sarir Khamsi" <address@hidden>
>> To: "ntemacs" <address@hidden>
>> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2012 3:52:57 PM
>> Subject: [h-e-w] Favorite font for Emacs
>>
>> I've been using a 6x13 font for Emacs on Windows for a very long time
>> and while I like the size and proportions, it does not display
>> italics
>> and other properties. The 6x13 font (that I can't even remember where
>> I
>> got it) is great for coding as it's fixed pitch and small, but it's
>> so
>> 20th century. :-)
>>
>> What do you folks use for fixed pitch fonts that work under Windows 7
>> with Emacs 24.1? Ideally, I'd like to use the same font as my Linux
>> (Fedora) install (without having to run X). Thanks.
>>
>> Sarir
>>
>> --
>> Sarir Khamsi
>> software guy
>> address@hidden
>>
>>
> 
> --
> Gary Oberbrunner
> 
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