From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: 14647@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#14647: 24.3.50; doc of `set-face-font'
Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:49:04 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834kzmk0yn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87k18jwlmc.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:29:47 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:29:47 +0100
> Cc: 14647@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
> > Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> >
> >> 1. Neither the Elisp manual (node `Attribute Functions') nor the doc
> >> string says what form the string FONT must or may take.
> >
> > Good question. The function is barely used in the Emacs source code
> > tree. The only usage I could find that set it to something was this:
> >
> > (defvar gamegrid-font "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-100-75-*-*-iso8859-*"
> > "Name of the font used in X mode.")
>
> But it's basically any string that describes a font on your system,
> depending on what font system you have. So "futura:size=20" works fine,
> too.
That's inaccurate. The function accepts any form of the :font
attribute, including font objects etc., but this is a command, and
interactively it only allows strings.
Also, "futura:size=20" might not work on MS-Windows, where these forms
are emulated by Emacs (since there's no Fontconfig); you may need to
use "Futura-20" instead.
> >> 2. The manual says that this command sets the :font attribute. The doc
> >> string says instead that it sets attributes :family, :foundry, :width,
> >> :height, :weight, and :slant. Which is it?
Both, actually.
> > Yeah.
>
> It looks like it's the latter, so I've altered the documentation in the
> manual.
I've now altered the docs again to say that :font is set, and the
other attributes are also set.
> >> 3. #1 is all the more imporatnt because the doc string of `x-list-fonts'
> >> says that it returns a list of strings that are "suitable as arguments
> >> to `set-face-font'. Really? Just what kind of strings are so suitable?
> >>
> >> I think, but am not sure, that FONT must be in XLFD form. Whatever the
> >> acceptable form(s), the doc needs to spell this out.
>
> I don't think so -- we aren't told what the form is, because that seems
> unnecessary. If we're curious for some reason, we can just call the
> function.
The various forms are documented in the Emacs manual, under "Fonts".
A cross-reference leads there from the ELisp manual.
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-18 3:46 bug#14647: 24.3.50; doc of `set-face-font' Drew Adams
2014-02-08 7:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-01 17:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2019-11-02 10:49 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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