[OS X TeX] nice fixed iso-8859-* font for carbon Emacs

[Siep Kroonenberg]

On Mon, Sep 13, 2004 at 12:18:14PM +0200, Siep Kroonenberg wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 12, 2004 at 09:09:28AM -0400, Tamas K Papp wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Is there a nice-looking fixed-width font with iso-8859-* (latin-1 is
> > OK, latin-2 would be nice) which I could use with my Carbon Emacs?  I
> > am currently using GNU-European, and I was wondering if there is
> > anything else that other people find working better.  This is OK, but
> > the accents look a bit different from other fonts on my desktop, and
> > it is not as smooth as Apple's fonts (which are macroman, and not good
> > for typing accented text in Emacs, at least I have not succeeded).
> > 
> > Thanks
> > 
> > Tamas
> 
> You don't really need an iso-8859-* font to get latin-1 encoding. I
> got the following code in my .emacs to turn on Latin 1 with Monaco
> (don't ask me what it means):
> 
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;
> 
> (set-language-environment "Latin-1")
> 
> (require 'ucs-tables)
> (unify-8859-on-encoding-mode 1)
> (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1)
> 
> (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
>   "-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-monaco,
>   ascii:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-m-90-mac-roman,
>   latin-iso8859-15:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-m-90-mac-roman,
>   latin-iso8859-1:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-m-90-mac-roman")
> 
> (set-frame-font "fontset-monaco")
> 
> (add-to-list 'default-frame-alist
>  '(font . "fontset-monaco"))
> 
> ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

And further down one more font-related snippet:

(custom-set-variables
  ;; custom-set-variables was added by Custom -- don't edit or cut/paste it!
  ;; Your init file should contain only one such instance.
 '...
 '(current-language-environment "Latin-1")
 '...

-- 
Siep Kroonenberg
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