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X-Received-From: 2607:f8b0:4864:20::62b X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:244543 Archived-At: More precisely, my question was in the context of helping users choose a font that is best suited to their needs --- the task is likely something that can be achieved by someone with the interest/motivation creating an appropriate theme. Eli Zaretskii writes: > > From: "T.V Raman" > > Cc: jpff@codemist.co.uk, rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2020 19:47:41 -0800 > > > > I didn't say anything was wrong, I said it's hard for a user to figure > > out what to use given a set of requirements. > > Sorry, I didn't realize your question was in the context of the font > backends, I thought it was a more general question about font setup. > Our best knowledge about the latter is already in fontest.el. OTOH, > the issue with fonts vs font backends is unrelated to fontsets. -- Id: kg:/m/0285kf1 -- Id: kg:/m/0285kf1