In GNU Emacs 23.0.60.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.11.0, *Step 9.0) of 2008-07-19 on sueton.benny.turtle-trading.net configured using `configure '--with-ns' '--with-png' '--with-gif' '--with-jpeg' '--with-tiff'' When setting the font via the font dialog either from the menu item "Set Default Font..." or from the preferenc es dialog, only the font family, but not the font size is actually configured. The attached patch fixes the problem by passing XLFDs around instead of Mac font names and eliminating the "FontSize" parameter from the defaults database. 2008-07-19 Benjamin Riefenstahl * lisp/term/ns-win.el (ns-save-preferences): Do not save defaults parameter "FontSize". (ns-respond-to-change-font): Construct an XLFD to pass to set-frame-font. * src/nsfns.m (Fns_create_frame): Do not use defaults parameter "FontSize".