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Re: recommended font for emacs xft
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Tamas Papp |
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Re: recommended font for emacs xft |
Date: |
Wed, 15 Aug 2007 17:15:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) |
Marc Schwartz <marc_schwartz@comcast.net> writes:
> Tamas Papp <tkpapp@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am happy using the alpha version of Emacs23 with the xft extension.
>> However, I could not find a font that is just "right": Monospace-11
>> looks very "weak". I am looking for something not to tall (number of
>> horizontal lines is important so I can fit more code on a screen).
>> set-default-font snippets are welcome.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Tamas
>
> Hi Tamas,
>
> I have used:
>
> 1. Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
>
> 2. Liberation Mono
>
> 3. DejaVu Sans Mono
>
> They are pretty interchangeable for the most part, but there will be
> some subtle differences in some font lock modes. I use a height
> setting of 120 in my .emacs. There are sizes, at least for me wearing
> bifocals at age 49, where any font is too small, so personal preference and
> visual acuity may impact upon how small you can go.
>
> Try them and see what you prefer.
>
> They look great in R/ESS with 23 as well. Here is a quick screen grab
> of 23, using ECB/psvn.el while editing .r and .rnw files:
>
> http://home.comcast.net/~marc_schwartz/Emacs23.png
>
> HTH,
>
> Marc Schwartz
Hi Marc,
Could you please post the relevant part of your .emacs? Currently
mine looks like
(set-default-font "Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-10.5")
but I don't know how to set the height independently of the font size.
Tamas