From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pixel-based display functions Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:39:38 +0200 Message-ID: <83a90zj6x1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <877fw9dndz.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83a914ozsh.fsf@gnu.org> <874mrb1t62.fsf_-_@building.gnus.org> <87vbjrl49k.fsf@violet.siamics.net> <8361bqogah.fsf@gnu.org> <87k306pfi9.fsf@building.gnus.org> <87egqekrd7.fsf@building.gnus.org> <877fw53eat.fsf@building.gnus.org> <877fw4zsdv.fsf@building.gnus.org> <831tmcn4k4.fsf@gnu.org> <87386szq1w.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83wq44ljm9.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbjowlqv.fsf@building.gnus.org> <83oapglbx6.fsf@gnu.org> <83lhkkl23i.fsf@gnu.org> <83sierjmjt.fsf@gnu.org> <83pp9vjjhl.fsf@gnu.org> <87k303q9s0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422718798 3926 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2015 15:39:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:39:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, schwab@linux-m68k.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 31 16:39:57 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YHa9N-0001qx-4F for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 16:39:57 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:42095 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHa9M-0007ki-In for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 10:39:56 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:57747) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHa9G-0007kd-VQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 10:39:54 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHa9B-0002vV-W0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 10:39:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout29.012.net.il ([80.179.55.185]:48575) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHa9B-0002v7-OG for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 10:39:45 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout29.012.net.il by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NJ100N00S8AEB00@mtaout29.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:36:08 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by mtaout29.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NJ100M9USO8AK30@mtaout29.012.net.il>; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 17:36:08 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <87k303q9s0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.185 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:182136 Archived-At: > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > Cc: Andreas Schwab , > larsi@gnus.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:55:59 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > Do people actually do such things? If so, in what circumstances? > > Boldface and italic come immediately to mind. ;-) That's not a problem, since there will be a face property there. > Among math symbols people may prefer different versions of some of > them (cf TeX's \varphi, for example). Not sure I understand the situation you describe here. > Large character sets like Han (you may specify Japanese fonts > because your audience is Japanese, but if your text contains Chinese > names for example, you may need to borrow characters from a Chinese > font). I get quite a few spam mail with Japanese and Chinese characters in them, but the former are always Kana, while the latter are Han.