From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font slants
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:46:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ej9k9dqe.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv3aq0vyia.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:30:02 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> one possibility is to change font-slant-table etc into defconsts and
>> move them from faces.el into cus-face.el. Is it even useful to
>> customize these alists?
>
> ...
>
>> (defcustom font-swidth-table
>> '((ultracondensed . 50) (ultra-condensed . 51)
>> ...
>
>> Why do we have a practically indistinguishable difference between
>> ultracondensed and ultra-condensed? Similarly with several other
>> symbols in these alists.
>
> Try to change it (or check vc-annotate) to see why: it needs to be
> bijective (ie. reversible).
This is another reason why these alists should be constants instead of
customizable, IMO. As defcustoms, it would seem reasonable for the user
to provide arbitrary values for these alists.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-05 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-05 14:46 Font slants Chong Yidong
2008-04-05 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-05 19:27 ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-05 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-05 21:12 ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-06 1:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-08 6:06 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-04-05 21:46 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-04-06 1:45 ` Stefan Monnier
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