From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:12:57 +0900 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151374430 19539 80.91.229.2 (27 Jun 2006 02:13:50 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 02:13:50 +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 Tue Jun 27 04:13:47 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 1Fv34l-0000mn-C6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 04:13:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fv34k-00023v-Pi for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:13:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fv34Y-00023S-DE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:13:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Fv34W-00023G-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:13:01 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fv34W-00023A-Oz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:13:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [203.180.232.81] (helo=mgate01.necel.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fv3GV-00087o-Az; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:25:23 -0400 Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com (relay31 [10.29.19.54]) by mgate01.necel.com (8.13.6/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k5QMfe5H015595; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:12:57 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay31.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.16] [10.29.19.16]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:12:57 +0900 Original-Received: from dhapc248.dev.necel.com ([10.114.97.235] [10.114.97.235]) by relay31.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:12:57 +0900 Original-Received: by dhapc248.dev.necel.com (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 1781E440; Tue, 27 Jun 2006 11:12:57 +0900 (JST) Original-To: "John S. Yates, Jr." System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: (John S. Yates, Jr.'s message of "Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:28:44 -0400") Original-Lines: 16 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:56210 Archived-At: "John S. Yates, Jr." 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"]