Setting default face font on W32

[monnier]

Symptoms:

I'm discovering the wonders of Emacs under W32 and wanted
to change the default font from courier to something sansserif,
in this case lucida-console.
I haven't been able to get to work reliably yet.
Here is what I tried (the rest of the .emacs is empty):

- (custom-set-faces
   '(default ((t (:family "outline-lucida console")))))

  This seems not to have any effect on the initial frame which
  still uses courier.  When I do C-x 5 2, I do get the proper lucida
  font in the new frame, tho.

- (custom-set-faces
   '(default ((t (:stipple nil :background "SystemWindow" :foreground 
"SystemWindowText" :inverse-video nil :box nil :strike-through nil :overline 
nil :underline nil :slant normal :weight normal :height 98 :width normal 
:family "outline-lucida console")))))

  This is the result of doing M-x customize-face RET default RET
  and changing nothing but the font family and then saving.

  This time the initial frame uses the proper lucida font.
  After C-x 5 2, the new frame also uses the proper lucida font,
  but after C-u C-x = in the second frame, the font of the frame
  reverts to courier (the original frame stays un-changed).
  If I do C-x 5 2 a second time (instead of C-u C-x = for example),
  the first and third frame use lucida but the second frame is
  changed to courier.

The W32 binary I use is downloaded from crasseux.com (this is
a friend's laptop on which there's no C compiler of any sort).


        Stefan



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