From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Pixel-based display functions Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:55:59 +0900 Message-ID: <87k303q9s0.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> 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> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1422716191 29902 80.91.229.3 (31 Jan 2015 14:56:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 14:56:31 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jan 31 15:56:30 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 1YHZTK-0005UK-Cr for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 15:56:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41959 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHZTJ-0006F4-2f for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:56:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:45916) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHZT7-0006Ez-Q2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:56:18 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHZT7-0004ky-32 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:56:17 -0500 Original-Received: from shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.161]:56516) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1YHZT3-0004hp-DM; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 09:56:13 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by shako.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 977161C38AC; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:55:59 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 729C21A2CF1; Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:55:59 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: <83pp9vjjhl.fsf@gnu.org> X-Mailer: VM undefined under 21.5 (beta34) "kale" acf1c26e3019 XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 130.158.97.161 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:182134 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Do people actually do such things? If so, in what circumstances? Boldface and italic come immediately to mind. ;-) Among math symbols people may prefer different versions of some of them (cf TeX's \varphi, for example). 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).