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[h-e-w] Selecting and setting a fixed width font for NT


From: Neil Mackie
Subject: [h-e-w] Selecting and setting a fixed width font for NT
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:47:22 +0000

First, thanks to Stephen Leake, Eli Daniel & Jonathan Underwood for responding 
to my last question "How to add a menu". 

For many years ,with Xemacs, I have had a fixed width font that I have been 
happy with. However with NTemacs I have been unable to settle on a font that is 
both fixed width (so the indentations in C++ line up) and easy to read (so I 
can spot my bugs  &;->  )

I would welcome suggestions from others using emacs on NT/XP as to which fonts 
are fixed width and which they find easy to read. My personal preference seems 
to be towards sans serif fonts that are not too wide.

I know I can select a font using the dialogue obtained by selecting shift-mouse 
1 but I prefer to set the font in my startup file like this
    (set-default-font "-*-MS Sans Serif-normal-r-*-*-12-90-*-*-p-80-*-ansi-")
However I do not know the mapping between the fonts in the GUI dialogue and the 
format used in set-default-font. Additionally the command list-fontsets only 
lists two fonts. Is there a way of getting the list of fonts displayed by the 
GUI dialogue in the set-default-font format so I can set the font in the 
startup file?

Regards,
Neil (J Mackie).





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