From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: tumashu@163.com, 51704@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#51704: 29.0.50; set-fontset-font do not work well with :weight 'normal of font-spec
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:57:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ilx15vvw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87tuglokb3.fsf@gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 09 Nov 2021 08:33:04 +0100)
> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2021 08:33:04 +0100
> Cc: 51704@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> tumashu <tumashu@163.com> writes:
>
> > medium work.
> >
> > Does old emacs support 'medium?
>
> Yes, in older Emacsen, `medium' is an alias for `normal'. This was
> split up since the font spec allows two different font weights here (and
> `medium' is heavier than `normal'), and Emacs didn't have a way to
> choose the actual `normal' font.
>
> The problem is that if you have a font that doesn't have the now-lighter
> `normal' font, Emacs won't find the right spec. I'm not sure whether
> there's any way to make a fallback of some kind here work... I'm
> amending the text in etc/NEWS and moving it to the "incompatible"
> section, though.
Can we rethink this incompatible change? Isn't there a way of
achieving the same goal without breaking people's font customizations?
Why was there a need to make 'normal' and 'medium' be different?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-11-09 12:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-09 6:44 bug#51704: 29.0.50; set-fontset-font do not work well with :weight 'normal of font-spec tumashu
2021-11-09 7:08 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-09 7:29 ` bug#51704: " tumashu
2021-11-09 7:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-09 7:45 ` tumashu
2021-11-09 12:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2021-11-09 23:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-10 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-10 22:45 ` tumashu
2021-11-12 6:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-12 8:21 ` tumashu
2021-11-12 8:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-12 8:33 ` tumashu
2021-11-12 8:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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