Setting face-font in Carbon Emacs 21.3.50.1

[Tim McNamara]

Symptoms:

The default face in Carbon Emacs is tiring the read (Courier, I
think).  I'd like to replace it with something easier to read.
Unfortunately Emacs doesn't seem to be able to access the native Mac
fonts, although I am not sure about this.  Trying to get it to use
Lucida Grande, I put

(set-face-font 'default "-apple-lucida
grande-medium-r-normal--12-140-75-75-m-120-mac-roman")

in my .emacs file, but only the default opening buffer is in this
font- all subsequent buffers revert to the Courier font.  Obviously my
configuration is incomplete somehow.  How do I get the face to apply
to all buffers?  I would have throught that

     set-face-font 'default

would do this automatically, but apparently not.

Carbon Emacs 21.3.50.1, not built by me, 5/29/04 (US date convention).


In GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin7.4.0)
 of 2004-05-29 on darkstar.local
configured using `configure '--with-carbon' '--without-x''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: nil
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Summary

Minor modes in effect:
  display-time-mode: t
  tool-bar-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  unify-8859-on-encoding-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t

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