Setting inconsolata font for emacs (SOLVED)

Fred Krogh · Last edited by Fred Krogh on Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:25 pm; edited 1 time in total

I have seen comments on what a nice font inconsolata is for editing code, and decided to try it. After emerging it, I've tried various choices for what to put in my ~/emacs.el file, in ~/.Xresources, and no matter what I've tried when I run "emacs --debug-init ~/.emacs.el", I get "font "whatever I've tried" is not defined. I'm hoping someone knows the proper incantation. Thanks,
Fred

Zagloj · Guru Joined: 17 Jun 2005 Posts: 344

Hi, you can try to enable the font using the graphical menu options and selection what you want in a intuitive system, it is in Options -> Selt Default Font

Hope it helps

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Fred Krogh · Posted: Mon Feb 23, 2015 11:29 pm Post subject:

Thanks for the thought, but that was the first thing tried. Inconsolata does not show up there. Lots of various tries involving (set_frame-font "...") in my .emacs.el file had no luck. Setting various things in .Xresources and the inconsolata fonts could not be found by emacs. I've wandered throught menus in emacs trying to change the directories that emacs uses to search for fonts, but nothing I change in those places seemed to make a difference.

yngwin · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 6:43 am Post subject:

Inconsolata is a truetype font. Does your emacs support TTF at all?
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Fred Krogh · Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2015 3:24 pm Post subject:

Many thanks yngwin. I did not have the xft use flag set. My choice of fonts in emacs has expanded greatly and inconsolata is trivial to select.