From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "John S. Yates, Jr." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: doc string for face-attribute-relative-p doesn't help Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:28:44 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1151323990 5206 80.91.229.2 (26 Jun 2006 12:13:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:13:10 +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 Mon Jun 26 14:13:04 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 1Fupxa-000685-2b for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 14:12:58 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Fups9-0001GQ-2D for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:07:21 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FuppR-0006zp-D6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:04:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FuppP-0006xB-DS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:04:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FuppP-0006wx-5Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:04:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [204.127.192.82] (helo=rwcrmhc12.comcast.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Fuq1F-00067x-5d; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:16:45 -0400 Original-Received: from mail.yates-sheets.org ([24.218.47.219]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc12) with SMTP id <20060626120426m120091ioge>; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 12:04:27 +0000 Original-Received: from 10.1.1.12 ([10.1.1.12]) by mail.yates-sheets.org (WinRoute Pro 4.2.5) with SMTP; Mon, 26 Jun 2006 08:28:44 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 3.3/32.846 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:56197 Archived-At: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 19:57:03 +0900, you wrote: >"John S. Yates, Jr." writes: >> Might "Return non-nil if face ATTRIBUTE VALUE is derived from >> the inherited face." be clearer? > >I'm afraid that doesn't even make sense to me... =46air enough. Perhaps I was too quick to respond with too little knowledge of the actual function being documented. My guess had been that the issue was to describe attribute inheritance. If that is indeed the case then "relative to" is at best unfamiliar terminology. 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". /john