Re: font-backend branch

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <29ve1y4h6i.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org>, Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> writes:

> Default face:
[...]
>      -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1 (#x6C)

> Bold face:
[...]
>      -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1 (#x70)

Ah, I see.  You wrote that you have this font setting.

Emacs.font: -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-14-*-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1

When I run the command
  % xlsfonts -fn -misc-fixed-*-*-*-*-14-*-100-100-*-iso8859-1
I got this result:
  -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-110-100-100-c-70-iso8859-1

So, Emacs preferred to use it for bold by making it
artificially bold (by overstriking).

But, actually that font is an alias of
  -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1.
and that font has this bold version:
  -misc-fixed-bold-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70-iso8859-1

Very complicated...

I've just installed a better but a little bit slower font
selection code.  Please try again.  I'll think about the
tuning for speed later.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@ni.aist.go.jp