Fonts (was: Persuade me to use gnus (please))

[Marcus Frings <iam-est-hora-surgere@despammed.com>]

* Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 03 2004, Marcus Frings wrote:

>> And for Emacs I use this setting in my .Xresources:
>> -*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15

> Not a good idea.  You should use -1 here.

Yes, you are right but this is my global default for all X applications
in ~/.Xresources. Maybe I should add a special "Emacs.Font: [...]" line
in ~/.Xresources.

> ,----[ (info "(emacs)Font X") ]
> | CHARSET
> |      This is the character set that the font depicts.  Normally you
> |      should use `iso8859-1'.
> `----

> When you need a Latin-9 font, Emacs will choose it automatically.

By the way, which is your favourite font for Emacs? I have always used
-*-*-medium-r-normal--14-*-*-*-c-*-iso8859-15 because it was the default
on my system but somehow I never see /italic/ characters in my Emacs
when using this font. My color theme always prints /italic/ text with a
bold face. I really think I should have to change this soon... :-)

Regards,
Marcus
-- 
"Intentions not up front and the shit that never faced reflects the sliver of
God's face and looped a flaw rotates forever unresolved. Sure to die.
I'll think about that."