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Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help
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David Kastrup |
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Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help |
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Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:45:09 +0200 |
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Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:
> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>> Return non-nil if face ATTRIBUTE VALUE is relative.
>>
>> What does that mean? How is ATTRIBUTE VALUE a face? This is
>> incomprehensible to me.
>>
>> I don't understand it either. Can someone explain?
>
> It returns non-nil if the face attribute ATTRIBUTE is relative when it
> has value VALUE. "Relative" means that the value doesn't _override_
> that attribute of an underlying face during face merging, but rather
> _modifies_ it.
>
> For most attributes the only value with that property is `unspecified';
> some attributes have other relative values (for instance, with :height,
> floating-point numbers are relative, as they specify a scale value
> rather than an absolute size).
Fine text for a footnote.
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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help, Richard Stallman, 2006/06/25
- Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help, Miles Bader, 2006/06/26
- Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help,
David Kastrup <=
- RE: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help, Drew Adams, 2006/06/26
- Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help, Miles Bader, 2006/06/26
- RE: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help, Drew Adams, 2006/06/26
- Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help, Miles Bader, 2006/06/26
- RE: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help, Drew Adams, 2006/06/27
- Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help, Richard Stallman, 2006/06/27
- Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help, Miles Bader, 2006/06/28
Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help, John S. Yates, Jr., 2006/06/26