I tried poking at the source code again and I guess I didn't try hard enough the first time because this time I found that changing the default font is trivial:
In files "RConsoleController.m" & "RController.m", change all instances of NSFont userFixedPitchFontOfSize:currentFontSize to NSFont fontWithName:@"Menlo-Regular" size:currentFontSize Mike On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mike Lawrence <mike.lawre...@dal.ca> wrote: > Hi Simon, > > Thanks for the reply. Indeed, I had already noticed in the source that > the app was simply asking the system for its default fixed width font. > I've searched for how to change this default but come up with nothing > (searched system preferences, fontbook, google, etc). Any suggestions? > > Mike > > On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:00 PM, Simon Urbanek > <simon.urba...@r-project.org> wrote: >> >> On Apr 23, 2010, at 4:24 PM, Mike Lawrence wrote: >> >>> Hi folks, >>> >>> Sorry if this has been asked already, but I couldn't find any references to >>> it in the list archives. Is there any way to change the default font of the >>> mac GUI? If I open the app I can change the size of the font and this >>> change persists even if I close and re-open the app, but changes in the >>> font itself do not persist. I've played around with the source code, but >>> can't seem to find what I'd need to modify to set a new default font (14pt >>> Menlo, for example). >>> >> >> Currently there is no way to change the font family - it is always left to >> the system to specify the font, GUI is just asking for fixed-width font. It >> is the default font for a given user so in theory by changing the default >> fixed width font for your account you will also change it in the GUI. You >> could add it to the wish list, though. >> >> Cheers, >> Simon >> >> _______________________________________________ >> R-SIG-Mac mailing list >> R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac >> > > > > -- > Mike Lawrence > Graduate Student > Department of Psychology > Dalhousie University > > Looking to arrange a meeting? Check my public calendar: > http://tr.im/mikes_public_calendar > > ~ Certainty is folly... I think. ~ > -- Mike Lawrence Graduate Student Department of Psychology Dalhousie University Looking to arrange a meeting? Check my public calendar: http://tr.im/mikes_public_calendar ~ Certainty is folly... I think. ~ _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Mac mailing list R-SIG-Mac@stat.math.ethz.ch https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-mac
