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