From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: observations for ns*.m files (Re: Emacs.app merged) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:15:02 +0100 Message-ID: <488D71F6.5090701@gnu.org> References: <1C66F1FC-BF82-4365-944D-ADCC4D1F435C@gmail.com> <200807272218.m6RMIIGA007577@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <16EE24C1-291C-4148-90F2-C249F612EFB2@gmail.com> <200807280258.m6S2wQmW021098@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1217229391 32047 80.91.229.12 (28 Jul 2008 07:16:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 07:16:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Adrian Robert , emacs- devel To: Dan Nicolaescu Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 28 09:17:20 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KNMyt-00049Z-Fw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 09:17:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32865 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNMxz-0007Gz-8Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:16:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNMxv-0007Fc-1N for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:16:19 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KNMxu-0007FF-MN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33637 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KNMxu-0007FC-Gl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:12069) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KNMxu-0007oK-6s for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:16:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KNMxt-0007G2-KK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 03:16:17 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 116139922/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$F2S-ACCEPTED/f2s-freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AuMEAJgOjUhTQxds/2dsb2JhbACBW4k8ojc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,263,1215385200"; d="scan'208";a="116139922" X-IP-Direction: IN Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO wanchan.jasonrumney.net) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 28 Jul 2008 08:15:17 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.249.27] (chiko.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7A321B7; Mon, 28 Jul 2008 08:15:42 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 (Windows/20080708) In-Reply-To: <200807280258.m6S2wQmW021098@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=8086879D X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:101626 Archived-At: Dan Nicolaescu wrote: > Adrian Robert writes: > > I'm not sure if there is a generic facility. On X, font size is part of the > > XLFD strings. These are not used except where absolutely necessary on NS, and > > I would like to get rid of these cases. > > At least talk to the Windows people because they probably have the same > problem. This is something very basic, it would be a pity to have > different solutions for different platform. Emacs 23 accepts 3 different formats for specifying fonts. In addition to XLFD, there are the fontconfig ("Monaco-10", "Monaco-10:bold"...) and GTK ("Monaco 10", "Monaco Bold 10") formats. If the point size is left out, a default of I think 12 is assumed.