I'm running a 21.5 build from CVS on Cygwin. Unlike my long-time standby 21.4.13, this new XEmacs uses Lucida Console as the default font family, whereas all previous XEmacs versions I've seen used Courier New. This change would be harmless, but I can't figure out how to specify my font preferences "early enough" to prevent certain basic faces from taking on the default Lucida Console family. The two examples troubling me so far are the "bold" and "italic" faces. It seems that I can coerce the "default" face to the Courier New family, but the "bold" and "italic" faces get stuck. I notice that these faces appear early as part of the splash screen. My assumption is that my face specification code gets run after the splash screen is created. My specifications then get read, but by then the "bold" and "italic" faces already exist and don't change in response to my request for a different font family. fonts.el, that contains forms like: ,----[ ~/.xemacs/fonts.el extract ] | (custom-set-faces | '(default | ((t | (:family "Courier New"))) t) | | '(default | ((((class color)) | (:family "Courier New" :foreground "gray90" :background "black"))) t) | | '(bold | ((t | (:family "Courier New"))) t) | | '(italic | ((t | (:family "Courier New"))) t) | | ;;:* selecting w/ mouse | '(zmacs-region | ((((class color) (background dark)) | (:foreground "yellow" :background "gray30"))) t) | | ; [Many more faces ...] `---- The "default" 't' entry is new, as are the "bold" and "italic" entries. What I'd like to specify is, "In all cases, the default font family is Courier New." I had assumed that the "bold" and "italic" faces would just inherit the family from the "default" face; that doesn't seem to be working here. Maybe custom-set-faces is the wrong way to go here. I don't use the custom interface much; my use of custom-set-faces here came from snooping on Robin Socha's public XEmacs configuration files. What is the /right/ way to overrule the default font family? -- Steven E. Harris