Re: Boldifing all faces?

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 26.03.2009 um 18:56 schrieb Elena:

> Well, at least on Windows we have a font dialog, whilst on Linux I had
> to investigate what fonts were available using other tools, then
> passing their string-ized specification to set-default-font. Not
> funny.


Linux can be a bit more complicated: it has two "font services:" one  
supplied by the X server (X client xfontsel, on the command line  
xlsfonts) and one handled by the human client, based on libfontconfig  
(fc-list or fc-match on the command line).

A rather fool-proof method to determine the system's font repertoire is:

        M-x set-frame-font RET TAB TAB


The X server supplies fonts named like this one: -b&h- 
lucidatypewriter-medium-r-*-*-10-*-*-*-m-*-iso10646-1, libfontconfig  
loves simple names: LucidaSansTypewriter or LucidaTypewriter or  
Lucida Sans Typewriter, mostly followed by a predicate  
like :style=Bold or such.

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  Pete

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