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From: "Fraga, Eric" <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: William Henderson <wmhenderson@freeshell.org>
Cc: "info-gnus-english@gnu.org" <info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs 26.3
Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2019 08:03:00 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8736eb12vg.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d0dhb036.fsf@sdf.org> (William Henderson's message of "Sun, 24 Nov 2019 11:28:29 -0700")

On Sunday, 24 Nov 2019 at 11:28, William Henderson wrote:
> BUT I am 80 and cannot read the default type face any more and although
> C-x C-+/-/0 work it is necessary to apply that to every file called -
> the commands are nor persistent.

I sympathize...  maybe add something along these lines to your ~/.emacs
or ~/.emacs.d/init.el file:

(set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "DejaVu Sans Mono" :height 180)

You can play with the height to achieve what you want hopefully.

-- 
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 27.0.50 & org 9.2.6 on Debian bullseye/sid

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2019-11-26  8:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-24 16:52 William Henderson
2019-11-24 17:01 ` Adam Sjøgren via info-gnus-english
2019-11-24 18:28   ` William Henderson
2019-11-24 18:58     ` Adam Sjøgren via info-gnus-english
2019-11-26  8:03     ` Fraga, Eric [this message]

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