Re: observations for ns*.m files (Re: Emacs.app merged)

[Chong Yidong]

Adrian Robert <address@hidden> writes:

> On Jul 28, 2008, at 3:15 AM, Jason Rumney wrote:
>
>> Emacs 23 accepts 3 different formats for specifying fonts. In addition
>> to XLFD, there are the fontconfig ("Monaco-10", "Monaco-10:bold"...)
>> and
>> GTK ("Monaco 10", "Monaco Bold 10") formats. If the point size is left
>> out, a default of I think 12 is assumed.
>
> Thanks.  The font backend system handles size and font name
> separately.  I will have to study the code to see where the parsing
> takes place that separates off the size attribute from the name.

See font_parse_xlfd and font_parse_fcname (and their comments) in
font.c.