Re: How to get the actual face attribute?

[Stefan Monnier]

> How should I recompute the text scale? Currently I calculate it from
>
> (expt text-scale-mode-step text-scale-mode-amount)
>
> Which is what text-scale-mode uses. (Face remap is hard to calculate so
> I thought I can just support text-scale-mode.)

You shouldn't look at `text-scale-*` at all and instead ask the display
code which font it will use.

[ But note that there's the issue of *computing* and then there's the
  issue of *re*computing (i.e. how to detect when it needs to be
  refreshed and how to make sure it is refreshed then).  ]


-- Stefan