bug#3319: 23.0.93; Default font

["Francis Wright" <f.j.wright@qmul.ac.uk>]

> From: Stefan Monnier [mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca]
> Sent: Tuesday 19 May 2009 3:33 pm
> To: Jason Rumney
> Cc: 3319@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com; Kenichi Handa; Francis Wright
> Subject: Re: bug#3319: 23.0.93; Default font
> 
> >> I think what you intend by :family "outline-lucida sans
> >> typewriter" is actually :foundry "outline" :family "lucida
> >> sans typewriter", right.  If so, I've just installed a fix.
> >> Please try again.
> > Please ensure your fix does not break cases like :family "MingLiU-
> ExtB",
> > where the hyphen really is part of the family name.
> 
> Breaking backward compatibility might be OK, but I still wonder: how
> come we ended up with "Sanvito Pro Subhead" from a spec of
> a non-existing "outline-lucida sans typewriter"?

Here's a bit more background. The following is without Kenichi Handa's fix.
I'll try to install the fix tomorrow and see what difference it makes.

I think I selected Lucida Sans Typewriter from a font menu and an earlier
version of Emacs then added the outline prefix. I currently have Calibri set
as my default font, but the Emacs 22.3 customize buffer displays the font as
Font Family: outline-calibri. If I resave this customization using Emacs
22.3, it is saved in my .emacs file as :family "outline-calibri". So I think
that's where the "outline-" prefix came from. Now, when I start Emacs
23.0.93, it has its default font set to Adobe Caslon Pro. If I set the
default font back to Lucida Sans Typewriter in Emacs 22.3, Emacs 23.0.93
still uses Adobe Caslon Pro as the default font.

To be precise, I set the default font in Emacs 22.3 by using the Options
menu item Set Font/Fontset... and then selecting Lucida Sans Typewriter from
the resulting dialogue box. Save Options doesn't seem to save this default
font setting in Emacs 22.3, so I use the customize buffer to save it. Then I
open Emacs 23.0.93, which uses Adobe Caslon Pro as the default font. This is
on a computer running Windows Vista. When I originally reported this bug I
was using a different computer running Windows XP and probably a slightly
different set of installed fonts, although they both have Sanvito, which I
think is another Adobe font.

Francis