> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2015 14:10:09 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams <drew.ad...@oracle.com> > Cc: help-emacs-windows@gnu.org > > > > But emacs does the font if I manually select it from the Set Font > > > menu as described above. > > > > Yes, it does. But that only makes it the default font for the text > > in the buffer in which you choose it. Using that as the default for > > the entire frame, not just for buffer text, is something that requires a > > higher-quality font. > > I didn't know that.
You didn't know what exactly? > Why does a frame need a better (default) font than a buffer? > Just what does a frame require in this regard? The bold variant, for starters, because we show the buffer name in bold on the mode line.