From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:45:09 +0200 Message-ID: <85y7vkl5ru.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151307982 17761 80.91.229.2 (26 Jun 2006 07:46:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 07:46:22 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 26 09:46:17 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FulnM-00079V-EH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:46:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FulnL-0000mz-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:46:07 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fuln8-0000lP-0F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:45:54 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fuln7-0000kS-07 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:45:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fuln6-0000kI-Qj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:45:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fulyw-0007Gf-6W for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:58:06 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Fulmz-0006Ai-Bi; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 03:45:45 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 395311C4D3B5; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 09:45:09 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2006 13:39:35 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) 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:56188 Archived-At: Miles Bader writes: > Richard Stallman writes: >> Return non-nil if face ATTRIBUTE VALUE is relative. >> >> What does that mean? How is ATTRIBUTE VALUE a face? This is >> incomprehensible to me. >> >> I don't understand it either. Can someone explain? > > It returns non-nil if the face attribute ATTRIBUTE is relative when it > has value VALUE. "Relative" means that the value doesn't _override_ > that attribute of an underlying face during face merging, but rather > _modifies_ it. > > For most attributes the only value with that property is `unspecified'; > some attributes have other relative values (for instance, with :height, > floating-point numbers are relative, as they specify a scale value > rather than an absolute size). Fine text for a footnote. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum