[OS X Emacs] How to set font?

[David Reitter]

On Aug 11, 2009, at 9:38 PM, <skip at pobox.com> wrote:
> I don't understand how to set fonts.  I'm using the new preview 2  
> version.
> For example, when running VM the summary window is in a variable  
> width sans
> serif font.  I executed M-x customize-face then scrolled down to the  
> Vm
> Summary Mode Default section and displayed what was there.  It  
> listed the
> font family as courier new, the height as 120 tenths, weight medium,  
> slant
> normal and inherit from autoface-default.  autoface-default just  
> inherits
> from default, which is a pretty generic looking Courier thing (foundry
> apple, 130 tenths, black on white, medium weight, normal slant, etc).

>
> So as far as I could tell my VM summary window should have displayed  
> text in
> something I would interpret as Courier-ish.

No objection.  (I assume that default is valid.)

> Then I tried changing the height from 120 to 150.  The
> summary window I was viewing got MUCH BIGGER instantly, but still  
> not Courier and not
> fixed width.
>
> I'm clearly barking up the right tree.  How do I get the squirrel to  
> fall
> out of it?

C-u C-x = should tell you what font and face is being used at point.
face-remapping-alist should confirm default -> vm-summary-mode-default  
(or so).

It seems to be the right face.  Have you tried using a different font,  
either in "default" or elsewhere?
You could start w/o customizations and then customize.  That should  
definitely work.

Also remember that faces can, unfortunately, be frame-specific, which  
really complicates things sometimes.

Generally it should work the way you described it!

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