Re: Fun with fonts

[Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net>]

* Jack Twilley <jmt+usenet@tbe.net>  on Sun, 14 Jan 2001
| 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 am liking Neep over Gamow very much.  It is narrower, which is a Good
Thing for faces with a point size >14 or so.  Underscoring is a little
weird looking, but I can get used to that.  It doesn't have italics but I
use a TrueType based Lucida Sans Typewriter for that (yay, xfstt :).

| (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?

Well, aside from the duplicated set-default-font bit, Emacs does not like
changing the default face on the fly once other faces have been defined.
But you might try this:

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

instead.  That might work.  It did for me (note the removal of the 'c' in
the spec).  XEmacs 21.1; YMMV.
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