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: Ping! Re: `font-spec` unable to retrieve :name of font Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 20:57:11 +0300 Message-ID: <83ziz8up3c.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87bnc3plb9.fsf@gmail.com> <87r3kngugm.fsf@gmail.com> <83k2qft0ej.fsf@gnu.org> <87h9lhucxx.fsf@gmail.com> <87611wcg97.fsf@esperi.org.uk> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1445709446 29941 80.91.229.3 (24 Oct 2015 17:57:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 17:57:26 +0000 (UTC) Cc: flexibeast@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Nix Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Oct 24 19:57:18 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 1Zq345-0000ys-5y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 19:57:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:45202 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zq344-0000Qw-JM for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 13:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:60278) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zq341-0000Qq-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 13:57:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zq33y-0007jQ-Aa for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 13:57:09 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout24.012.net.il ([80.179.55.180]:58516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zq33y-0007jM-3A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 13:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout24.012.net.il by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NWQ00700JID5M00@mtaout24.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 20:50:29 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout24.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NWQ0044WK84SX40@mtaout24.012.net.il>; Sat, 24 Oct 2015 20:50:29 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <87611wcg97.fsf@esperi.org.uk> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.180 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:192571 Archived-At: > From: Nix > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org > Emacs: the Swiss Army of Editors. > Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 18:45:24 +0100 > > > i might see if i can use FontForge to change the name to something XLFD-friendly (e.g. 'InconsolataG'). > > This seems like a transformation Emacs should be doing itself. That's a chicken-and-egg problem: Emacs gets the XLFD name from a font back-end, so it cannot change the name unless it has a means to deduce that the -g part is not an XLFD field, but part of the name.