> How can I get a list with all the setting and apply the font setting
> to just one sentence in a buffer?

> Am 31.03.2008 um 22:46 schrieb Paulo J. Matos:
>

>> How can I get a list with all the setting and apply the font setting
>> to just one sentence in a buffer?

>
> That's not possible - at least not in GNU Emacs. Here one frame can
> use only one font or fontset. You might think of creating some
> hundred frames, each using a different font or fontset. Best filter
> all proportional fonts. They're mostly useful for novels or
> newspapers. Monospaced fonts are probably the proper choice for GNU
> Emacs.

>> That's not possible - at least not in GNU Emacs. Here one frame can
>> use only one font or fontset. You might think of creating some
>> hundred frames, each using a different font or fontset. Best filter
>> all proportional fonts. They're mostly useful for novels or
>> newspapers. Monospaced fonts are probably the proper choice for GNU
>> Emacs.

>
> Any likelihood of this changing -- say in emacs 23 ??

> On Apr 2, 2:28 pm, Peter Dyballa wrote:
>

>> That's not possible - at least not in GNU Emacs. Here one frame can
>> use only one font or fontset. You might think of creating some
>> hundred frames, each using a different font or fontset. Best filter
>> all proportional fonts. They're mostly useful for novels or
>> newspapers. Monospaced fonts are probably the proper choice for GNU
>> Emacs.

>
> Any likelihood of this changing -- say in emacs 23 ??

> Am 05.04.2008 um 06:05 schrieb rustom:
>

>>> That's not possible - at least not in GNU Emacs. Here one frame can
>>> use only one font or fontset. You might think of creating some
>>> hundred frames, each using a different font or fontset. Best filter
>>> all proportional fonts. They're mostly useful for novels or
>>> newspapers. Monospaced fonts are probably the proper choice for GNU
>>> Emacs.

>

>> Any likelihood of this changing -- say in emacs 23 ??

>
> Why should this change? Do you want to learn commands to set font or  
> fontset properties plus colours effects for text particles or do you  
> want to programme or write something?

> Yeah. I dont want and dont know how to do all this. But an eclipse
> display with the file pane in a distinctly smaller font than the
> program pane is not just pleasanter to look at but is more efficient
> in the use of screen real-estate.

>
>
> Look into the X Resources node in Emacs' info page. You can also set
> initial-frame-alist and default-frame-alist or switch off toolbar and
> menubar and scrollbar and use an (almost) unreadable font in mode-line ...
> Probably there are X11 window managers that allow to set the size of the (X)
> window's (or Emacs frame's) title bar.
>
> Also check text with C-u C-x = and then choose the customise hyper-link to
> change font, size, colour – at least in GNU Emacs 23.x it works this way.
> In GNU Emacs 22 it's possible to select the "face name" to enter a *Help*
> buffer which then allows to finally choose "(customize this face)."
>