Re: Fun with fonts

[Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@tbe.net>]

>>>>> "Hans" == Hans de Graaff <hans@degraaff.org> writes:

Jack> So I've been searching for a new font, since I somehow blew away
Jack> my old happy working font setup in Emacs.
Jack> 
Jack> I'd like _underline_, *bold*, and /italics/ to work in Gnus, and
Jack> I'd prefer a fixed-width font to a proportional font.  I'd also
Jack> like a nice simple clean font like "fixed", or the one I'm
Jack> currently using,
Jack> "-*-lucidatypewriter-medium-*-*-sans-12-*-100-100-*-*-*-*".

Hans> I'm using "-*-Neep-Medium-R-*-*-*-120-75-75-*-*-iso8859-1". This
Hans> font is part of the jmk-x11 font package. No italic,
Hans> though... Not sure where they can be found, but I think the
Hans> author's homepage may be a good start:
Hans> http://www.pobox.com/~jmknoble/

Those fonts are part of FreeBSD's ports packages at
/usr/ports/x11-fonts/jmt-x11-fonts -- I'm now trying Gamow from the
/usr/ports/x11-fonts/nucleus as recommended by Chad House earlier in
the thread.

I've stuck the following line in my .gnus:

(set-default-font "-nucleus-gamow-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-*-iso8859-1")

I was reading through the documentation and tried this, but it didn't
work:

(add-hook 'gnus-load-hook '(lambda () (set-default-font
(set-default-font 
"-nucleus-gamow-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-c-*-iso8859-1")))) 

But that didn't work.  Any ideas on why not?

Hans> Hans

Jack.
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