From: Miles Bader <miles.bader@necel.com>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:12:57 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <buoy7vjs5w6.fsf@dhapc248.dev.necel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e4kv921ch20e5vmrgtpqgsav5phflunnc0@4ax.com> (John S. Yates, Jr.'s message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:28:44 -0400")
"John S. Yates, Jr." <john@yates-sheets.org> writes:
> Backing off and focusing only on terminology for describing
> definitions, I find "in terms of", "as a function of" or "based
> on" all easier to swallow than "defined relative to".
The key point is whether the value in question acts as an absolute
setting, or whether it acts as a modifier (including the "null modifier"
`unspecified') for the (absolute) value in an underlying face.
[I probably use the term "relative" to contrast with "absolute" out of
habit, from typical usage when describing filenames.]
-Miles
--
My spirit felt washed. With blood. [Eli Shin, on "The Passion of the Christ"]
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[not found] <MEEKKIABFKKDFJMPIOEBKEIGDCAA.drew.adams@oracle.com>
2006-06-25 15:33 ` doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help Richard Stallman
2006-06-26 4:39 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-26 7:45 ` David Kastrup
2006-06-26 16:17 ` Drew Adams
2006-06-27 2:08 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-27 3:33 ` Drew Adams
2006-06-27 3:52 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-27 4:27 ` Drew Adams
2006-06-27 16:16 ` Richard Stallman
2006-06-28 6:41 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-26 11:13 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2006-06-26 10:57 ` Miles Bader
2006-06-26 12:28 ` John S. Yates, Jr.
2006-06-27 2:12 ` Miles Bader [this message]
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