[R-SIG-Mac] Permanently change default console font

[Simon Urbanek]

On Apr 23, 2010, at 9:59 PM, Mike Lawrence wrote:

> 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
> 

If you want to mess with the sources it's much easier - just add

[NSFont setUserFixedPitchFont: [NSFont fontWithName:@"Menlo-Regular" size:12]];

anywhere in the startup - you don't need to change the font retrieval at all since it is already defined such that it gets your current default font.

Cheers,
Simon



> Mike
> 
> On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Mike Lawrence <Mike.Lawrence at 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.urbanek at 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
>>> 
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>> 
>> 
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>> Mike Lawrence
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>> Dalhousie University
>> 
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>> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> 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. ~
> 
>