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Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces
From: |
Miles Bader |
Subject: |
Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces |
Date: |
Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:17:04 +0900 |
Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>> As far as I know, fontconfig's API FcFontMatch is very
>> difficult to use here. It always returns a font that
>> fontconfig thinks best matching with the given pattern. If
>> the family name of the returned font is different from the
>> requested one, there's no way to know whether the requested
>> family name is remapped (or selected as an alias) by some
>> config file or not.
>>
>> So, Emacs currently uses FcFontList only (except for such
>> generic families; monospace, sans-serit, serif).
>
> I see.
>
> What if Emacs always uses FcFontMatch if it's compiled with fontconfig
> support? IIUC, this means that fonts using the x font backend are never
> selected, since fontconfig will always try to find a match. But this
> may be acceptable in practice.
Is there a reason to think that Emacs does a better job than fontconfig
at finding a match?
The current (apparent) unpredictability of Emacs' font-selection can be
quite maddening...
-Miles
--
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- Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Chong Yidong, 2008/06/07
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Chong Yidong, 2008/06/07
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Stefan Monnier, 2008/06/07
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, David Hansen, 2008/06/07
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, James Cloos, 2008/06/07
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/08
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Chong Yidong, 2008/06/08
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/08
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Chong Yidong, 2008/06/09
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/09
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Miles Bader, 2008/06/09
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Miles Bader, 2008/06/09
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/09
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Miles Bader, 2008/06/09
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/09
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Miles Bader, 2008/06/09
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/09
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Miles Bader, 2008/06/09
- Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces, Kenichi Handa, 2008/06/09