bug#52493: 29.0.50; Setting Inconsolata up in init.el makes default face rendered wrong

[Gregory Heytings]

> > I did not design that function, that's how it works.  But given how 
> > intricate the face machinery is, I'm not sure it's possible to do much 
> > better.
>
> It does feel a little odd, though. Could you explain why :family does 
> get evaluated first, but :font does not?

I can't explain that, no.  If you look at bug#1127, you'll see that moving 
the evaluation of :family and :foundry before other attributes was (in 
2008) perceived as a workaround.  Apparently that worked well enough, and 
it's still there in its original form.

IMO it would make sense to move the evaluation of the :font attribute 
before other attributes, for the same reason.

Eli, what do you think of the attached patch?

> And yet, it's better recommended to use :font?

Again, that's why I'd recommend, but it's not the officially recommended 
way of doing things (if such a thing exists).

Evaluate-font-attribute-earlier-in-set-face-attribut.patch
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