Re: Overriding inherited face attributes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2018 13:24:51 +0100
> 
> But then I observed that merely switching the order:
> 
> (insert (propertize "hello" 'face '(:inherit (:foreground "orange")
> :foreground "red")))
> 
> makes the face display as red, and this seems to conflict with the above
> documentation.

It doesn't, because ':foreground "red"' is not the "underlying face".