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Re: Font slants
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: Font slants |
Date: |
Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:30:02 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) |
>>> When I do M-x customize-face RET default RET, the value of the `default'
>>> face is given as a Lisp expression instead of the usual value menus.
>>> This occurs because the slant of the face, as supplied by the new font
>>> engine, is "roman".
>>
>>> I just committed the following patch to fix this. However, I'm not sure
>>> these are the only values of the slant parameter. Does anyone know if
>>> other possible values could be generated?
>>
>> Why not use font-slant-table, font-weight-table, and font-swidth-table?
> There is one problem with that: font-slant-table etc. are defcustoms,
> while custom-face-attributes is a defconst. So if you want to use them
> to initialize custom-face-attributes, one possibility is to change
> font-slant-table etc into defconsts and move them from faces.el into
> cus-face.el. Is it even useful to customize these alists?
As long as cus-face is loaded after faces.el, that won't be
a serious problem, since it's probably not very useful to customize
those lists. I wouldn't have made them customizable, but maybe Handa
had good reasons to do that?
> On a related note, what's the story behind these settings?
> (defcustom font-swidth-table
> '((ultracondensed . 50) (ultra-condensed . 51)
> ...
> Why do we have a practically indistinguishable difference between
> ultracondensed and ultra-condensed? Similarly with several other
> symbols in these alists.
Try to change it (or check vc-annotate) to see why: it needs to be
bijective (ie. reversible).
Stefan