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Re: Visual font looping setup
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Visual font looping setup |
Date: |
Fri, 20 Nov 2020 22:30:37 +0200 |
> Date: Fri, 20 Nov 2020 23:16:32 +0300
> From: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> Sure that I look into separate program and then try to set it in
> Emacs. I have to know how to type the font and to choose various options in
> Emacs to have the same font actually selected. It is tedious.
??? All you need is to tell Emacs which font to use, as in
emacs -fn FONT-NAME
And similar in your init file, using one of the available methods, for
example set-face-attribute.
> > Failing that, the font selection dialog popped by S-mouse-1 or
> > Options->Set Default Font from the menu bar usually shows a small
> > sample of each font as you scroll through their list.
> >
> > Does one of these fit the bill?
>
> I remember using that one before many years. For me that option almost
> never gives satisfactorily result.
I mentioned two possibilities, not one. Which one did you use, and
how about to try the other one?
> DejaVu Sans Mono is for example not listed there. Many other way
> better and visually pleasant fonts are not there. In fact the option
> chooses more or less majority of fonts that I consider not pleasant
> for reading or working.
>
> I can see there only following:
>
> - Misc
> - Courier
> - Fontset
>
> Under fontset there are 2 options that change something, Courier
> changes courier and Misc is pretty much ugly unless I enlarge those
> fonts to be huge.
Sounds like you tried S-mouse-1. Then try the other method I
mentioned.
Re: Visual font looping setup, Jean Louis, 2020/11/20