RE: cannot understand Elisp manual node Glyphs

["Stuart D. Herring" <herring@lanl.gov>]

>> For what it's worth, I offer
>> (defun string-to-glyphs (str &optional face)
>>   "Return a glyph vector representing string STR with face FACE."
>>   (vconcat (mapcar (lambda (c) (make-glyph-with-face c face)) str)))
>
> Just what I was going to do. But I agree that we might as well have such a
> function.
> (However, the case where FACE is nil needs to be treated also.)

I did handle that case; see my modified version of Kim's
make-glyph-with-face function which I included in the same message.  Of
course, since then he's made an equivalent modification, renamed the
function, and packaged the whole thing as a manual and code patch.

Davis

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