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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yukio Siraichi <sir.yukio@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use fontconfig spec for parsing font-weight.
Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 09:14:19 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83v97hubt0.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c5c809db-d09c-11c6-a46e-a3ec32a8d714@gmail.com> (message from Yukio Siraichi on Mon, 17 May 2021 13:37:31 +0900)

> From: Yukio Siraichi <sir.yukio@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 13:37:31 +0900
> 
> This patch addresses one of the differences between 'fontconfig' 
> font-weight table, and the one inside emacs. Basically, the problem was 
> that emacs wasn't listing fonts whose weight=55. However, those are 
> defined to be 'semilight' in the fontconfig specification (see link below).
> 
> Reproducing this problem only requires the existence of fonts whose 
> weight=55 (one can use fc-cat for that). It's possible to observe that 
> such fonts are not found in 'x-list-fonts' or when running 'describe-font'.

Thanks, but why is it important for these fonts to appear in those
lists?  What is the practical advantage of that for Emacs users?



  reply	other threads:[~2021-05-17  6:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-05-17  4:37 [PATCH] Use fontconfig spec for parsing font-weight Yukio Siraichi
2021-05-17  6:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
     [not found]   ` <75349245-3caa-ea30-939d-0a2b8bc32aa5@gmail.com>
2021-05-17  7:30     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-17  7:44       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] <1b6ef436-2f32-bfed-f0a8-f55aa4852ccd@gmail.com>
2021-05-17  9:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-17 10:11   ` Yukio Siraichi
2021-05-17 10:29     ` Eli Zaretskii

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