From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Font slants
Date: Sat, 05 Apr 2008 21:45:46 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3apzvjrz.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ej9k9dqe.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (Chong Yidong's message of "Sat, 05 Apr 2008 17:46:33 -0400")
>>> one possibility is to change font-slant-table etc into defconsts and
>>> move them from faces.el into cus-face.el. Is it even useful to
>>> customize these alists?
>>
>> ...
>>
>>> (defcustom font-swidth-table
>>> '((ultracondensed . 50) (ultra-condensed . 51)
>>> ...
>>
>>> Why do we have a practically indistinguishable difference between
>>> ultracondensed and ultra-condensed? Similarly with several other
>>> symbols in these alists.
>>
>> Try to change it (or check vc-annotate) to see why: it needs to be
>> bijective (ie. reversible).
> This is another reason why these alists should be constants instead of
> customizable, IMO. As defcustoms, it would seem reasonable for the user
> to provide arbitrary values for these alists.
That's OK: the bijectivity is enforced, so if the user tries to change
it wrong, she'll immediately get an error,
Stefan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-04-06 1:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-05 14:46 Font slants Chong Yidong
2008-04-05 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-05 19:27 ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-05 20:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-05 21:12 ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-06 1:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-04-08 6:06 ` Kenichi Handa
2008-04-05 21:46 ` Chong Yidong
2008-04-06 1:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
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