Font change in .28?

Matthew Persico matthew.persico at gmail.com
Fri Jun 1 10:11:45 EDT 2007


Never mind. - I just found the thread discussing this.

My apologies.

On 6/1/07, Matthew Persico <matthew.persico at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 6/1/07, Matthew Persico <matthew.persico at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Under Windows, I routinely hand-edit faces.c to change the default
> > font from Lucida to Courier before rebuilding.
> >
> > Under UNIX, I found that the default font was Courier and I had to do
> > no such massaging.
> >
> > However, with the latest version (.28), I find that the default font
> > has changed from Courier on the UNIX-compiled version and I cannot,
> > for the life of me, figure out where that is set in the code.
> > Moreover, the default font is not a fixed-width font, so I cannot even
> > really "live with it" until I get it fixed - I am dropping back to .27
> > for now, which, using the same environment as .28 has the "right"
> > fonts.
> >
> > Can I get some guidance here as to:
> >
> > 1) What line of faces.c needs to be twiddled to return the default to Courier?
> > 2) What statement I could put in my local .xemacs config files to
> > accomplish same?
>
> I used the Options/Fonts menu item to change the font to Courier, save
> options, quit and restarted. The splash screen still comes up with
> non-Courier fonts, but files I load do come up with Courier.
>
> Even so, I'd still like advice on how to change the font before
> deployment instead of having to have every developer have to make this
> change locally.
>
> > 3) What statement I could put in a global .xemacs config file to
> > accomplish same? What should be the name of that file and where should
> > it be placed (xemacs/site-lisp)?
> >
> > Sorry to be a pest, but the last few releases of xemacs-beta have
> > required so little tweaking on my part that I am a bit rusty.
> >
> > TIA
> > --
> > Matthew O. Persico
> >
>
>
> --
> Matthew O. Persico
>


-- 
Matthew O. Persico



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