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Re: Can I ask a Simple question?


From: rgb
Subject: Re: Can I ask a Simple question?
Date: 5 Oct 2006 08:06:04 -0700
User-agent: G2/1.0

> To pick out a font and get its full name (like that
> -adobe-courier-med...) I run NEdit and use its built in font selection
> tool. I tried xfontsel, but it wasn't helpful.

After selecting a font with S-<mouse-1> in Emacs you can get it's name
by putting this line in your *scratch* buffer and hitting C-j

(assoc 'font (frame-parameters))

You should get a result something like this:
(font . "-outline-Courier
New-normal-r-normal-normal-13-97-96-96-c-*-iso8859-1")



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