From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 57555@debbugs.gnu.org, gregory@heytings.org, bandali@gnu.org
Subject: bug#57555: 29.0.50; variable-pitch font issue with medium weight default font
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 16:01:09 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <831qsnibje.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87illznylq.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:44:01 +0200)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: gregory@heytings.org, bandali@gnu.org, 57555@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:44:01 +0200
>
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> So we've come full circle.
> >
> > No, we haven't.
>
> In what way isn't that "full circle"?
In the way I explained below:
> > Emacs works as expected: it requests a medium-weight
> > font for the variable-pitch face, because the fixed-pitch face was
> > customized to use a medium weight. Since the font Amin wants to use
> > for variable-pitch doesn't have a medium variant, Emacs selects
> > another one. There's no real problem I see here, except an issue with
> > user expectations not being satisfied.
>
> I think that the vast majority of users would want Emacs to choose a
> different weight, but use the same font, which is what we had before we
> went full circle.
So maybe we should consider resetting just the weight attribute,
perhaps only if its value is 'medium' (assuming that solves this
particular issue). That's a far cry from resetting all of them.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-07 13:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-03 1:35 bug#57555: 29.0.50; variable-pitch font issue with medium weight default font Amin Bandali
2022-09-03 6:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 7:06 ` Amin Bandali
2022-09-05 11:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 15:08 ` Amin Bandali
2022-09-05 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 18:19 ` Amin Bandali
2022-09-05 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-05 21:17 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-06 2:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-06 8:08 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-06 12:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-06 13:09 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-06 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-06 14:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-06 15:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-09-07 12:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-07 13:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-09-08 11:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2022-09-08 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-20 13:57 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-20 15:27 ` Amin Bandali
2022-11-20 15:46 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-20 16:13 ` Amin Bandali
2022-11-20 17:01 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-12-10 22:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-09-06 2:34 ` Amin Bandali
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