From: "Francis Wright" <f.j.wright@qmul.ac.uk>
To: "'Stefan Monnier'" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>,
"'Kenichi Handa'" <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: 3319@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#3319: 23.0.93; Default font
Date: Wed, 20 May 2009 18:02:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <28266.0964680419$1242840594@news.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvvdnwwmcc.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier [mailto:monnier@iro.umontreal.ca]
> Sent: Wednesday 20 May 2009 3:17 am
> To: Kenichi Handa
> Cc: jasonr@gnu.org; 3319@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com;
> F.J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk
> Subject: Re: bug#3319: 23.0.93; Default font
>
> >> 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"?
>
> > When there's no font of the specified family, Emacs tries to
> > find a font without specifing family. In that case, which
> > family is selected is just arbitrary.
>
> Shouldn't we fallback on the default font families
> (Sans/Courier/...) instead?
I think that would be much better. A known useable font would be better than
something arbitrary, which could presumably be some kind of symbol font.
Incidentally, Emacs 22 doesn't offer me Sanvito or the Adobe fonts, whereas
Emacs 23 does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-20 17:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <001801c9d71a$8bade240$a309a6c0$@J.Wright@qmul.ac.uk>
2009-05-19 1:30 ` bug#3319: 23.0.93; Default font Kenichi Handa
2009-05-19 3:30 ` Jason Rumney
2009-05-19 5:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-05-19 17:14 ` Francis Wright
[not found] ` <006601c9d8a5$563b2550$02b16ff0$@j.wright@qmul.ac.uk>
2009-05-20 0:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-05-20 16:57 ` Francis Wright
2009-05-19 14:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-19 17:03 ` Francis Wright
2009-05-20 0:28 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-05-20 2:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-05-20 4:14 ` Kenichi Handa
2009-05-20 17:02 ` Francis Wright [this message]
2009-05-25 16:34 ` Francis Wright
2009-05-17 18:08 Francis Wright
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