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Jason Fidler,Matt,FORT WORTH,R&D wrote: > I like Inconsolata > > http://levien.com/type/myfonts/inconsolata.html > > Matt. > > -----Original Message----- > From: help-emacs-windows-bounces+matt.fidler=alconlabs....@gnu.org > [mailto:help-emacs-windows-bounces+matt.fidler=alconlabs....@gnu.org] 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" <sarir.kha...@raytheon.com> >> To: "ntemacs" <help-emacs-windows@gnu.org> >> 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 >> sarir.kha...@raytheon.com >> >> > > -- > Gary Oberbrunner > > > This e-mail (including any attachments) is confidential and may be legally > privileged. If you are not an intended recipient or an authorized > representative of an intended recipient, you are prohibited from using, > copying or distributing the information in this e-mail or its attachments. If > you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender immediately > by return e-mail and delete all copies of this message and any attachments. > > Thank you. >
