Re: font-related hanging / general brokenness

[Miles Bader]

I wrote:
> Is having a :foundry as a face-attribute really the right thing?  I
> think users usually don't know or care about the foundry info, and its
> presence as part of the face seems like it will cause the :family
> attribute almost never work correctly (because a face which specifies
> :family will almost always inherit an incorrect :foundry value from the
> default face).

BTW, one possible way to make :foundry work better might be to be _very_
relaxed about matching with it:  First try matching including the face's
:foundry, and if that returns "no match", then try matching agains with
:foundy "*".

That would allow the user to specify a foundry for special cases where
it's desired -- probably almost always together with a family name --
but avoid the undesirable effects caused by inheriting a :foundry
attribute.

-Miles

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