[h-e-w] RE: Selecting and setting a fixed width font for NT

[Raymond Zeitler]

I like Fixedsys.  I have this in my .emacs:

(setq default-frame-alist
      '(
        ; Other things removed
        (font . 
"-raster-Fixedsys-normal-r-normal-normal-12-90-96-96-c-*-iso10646-1")))

The only thing I'm disappointed with is that the alternate IBM extended 
character set (which includes the line-drawing characters and Greek letters) 
isn't displayed "properly."

HTH
-----Original Message-----
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 13:47:22 +0000
From: "Neil Mackie" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Subject: [h-e-w] Selecting and setting a fixed width font for NT
Message-ID: <address@hidden>
Message: 2

First, thanks to Stephen Leake, Eli Daniel & Jonathan Underwood for responding 
to my last question "How to add a menu".

For many years ,with Xemacs, I have had a fixed width font that I have been 
happy with. However with NTemacs I have been unable to settle on a font that is 
both fixed width (so the indentations in C++ line up) and easy to read (so I 
can spot my bugs  &;->  )

I would welcome suggestions from others using emacs on NT/XP as to which fonts 
are fixed width and which they find easy to read. My personal preference seems 
to be towards sans serif fonts that are not too wide.

I know I can select a font using the dialogue obtained by selecting shift-mouse 
1 but I prefer to set the font in my startup file like this
    (set-default-font "-*-MS Sans Serif-normal-r-*-*-12-90-*-*-p-80-*-ansi-")

However I do not know the mapping between the fonts in the GUI dialogue and the 
format used in set-default-font. Additionally the command list-fontsets only 
lists two fonts. Is there a way of getting the list of fonts displayed by the 
GUI dialogue in the set-default-font format so I can set the font in the 
startup file?

Regards,
Neil (J Mackie).