Re: font size, linux (redhat)

Peter Flynn <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.psgml.user
Organization Silmaril Consultants
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Wed, 2003-05-07 at 17:56, Dave Pawson wrote:
> In windows, I use
> 
> (set-default-font "-*-Courier-*-r-*-*-18-90-*-*-c-*-*-*")
> 
> This has failed under redhat 9 (emacs 21.x)
> 
> Can anyone tell me what the line might be to get
> (approx) the equivalent to 18 point as above please?
> appears to be something along the lines of pixels h and v
>   from reading the documentation, but it isn't detailed.
> 
> I can't read clearly what emacs is giving me now.

$ xlsfonts | grep -i courier | grep 18

and take your pick.  I just typed emacs -fn
-adobe-courier-medium-r-normal--18-180-75-75-m-110-iso8859-1 &
and it looks fine.



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