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Re: Customizing fonts in a mult-language (English+Hebrew) environment
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Will Parsons |
Subject: |
Re: Customizing fonts in a mult-language (English+Hebrew) environment |
Date: |
24 Sep 2012 19:24:10 GMT |
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Will Parsons <oudeis@nodomain.invalid>
>> Date: 23 Sep 2012 23:59:45 GMT
>>
>> So, I'd like to arrange it so that both the English and the Hebrew
>> text are equally legible, but haven't the slightest idea of how to
>> accomplish that.
>
> First, find a font that gives you legible Hebrew characters. (You
> didn't say what system are you one; the way of doing this depends on
> the OS.) Let's say that font's name is "CoolFont".
>
> Then put this in your ~/.emacs:
>
> (set-fontset-font t 'hebrew "CoolFont")
Thanks - now I'll have to find a good legible Hebrew font. (I'm
running on FreeBSD.)
> This causes Emacs to use the specified font for Hebrew.
>
> If you find a font that is good for both English and Hebrew, then
> setting the 'font' attribute of the 'default' face will cause Emacs to
> use that font as the default font.
The way I'm specifying my default font now is in .Xresources:
Emacs.font: 9x15
But as I said, although this looks good in English, I find the Hebrew
font it pulls in a bit hard to read.
--
Will