[OS X TeX] Re: screen font size in carbon emacs

[Henry Harpending]

On Mar 23, 2004, at 7:01 AM, Gilbert Harman wrote:

> This is what I have in my .emacs to get monaco size 14:
>
> (set-frame-font
> "-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-140-mac-roman")
> (add-to-list
>  'default-frame-alist
>  '(font . 
> "-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--14-140-75-75-m-140-mac-roman"))
>
> You can instead put in some other font specification, e.g. for Courier 
> 16.

Thanks: that does indeed work but for some reason does not get executed 
in my ~/.emacs.  I read in .emacs, go to the end of the expressions, 
run them with ^x^e, and the font changes.   It even works when I 
substitute 18 for 14 to get 18 pt. monaco.   So then I tried 24 pt. and 
segfaulted.

Best regards, Henry Harpending

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