Re: [ELPA] Add new 'show-font' package?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2024 08:43:09 +0300
> 
> > Some general comments:  It would be nice to have a command to select a
> > font.
> 
> You mean to select a font to preview? This can be done, for sure, though
> I will need to decouple the preview/presentation from the file-visiting
> part. In other words, the user selects a font and then we do
> 'set-face-attribute' of its family across the buffer that we generate.
> This way, we do not need to know where the font is installed and to
> visit that file (though that is fine as well).

Did you plan on including support for showing non-ASCII fonts?  That
is, fonts whose sole purpose is to display non-ASCII characters of
some script(s)?  Because if you did (and I think it's important to
Emacs users), then it would require different techniques, probably
working with fontsets instead of set-face-attribute, because the
latter only allows you to set the font for ASCII characters.