From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs chooses wrong bold font, again Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:22:26 -0400 Message-ID: References: <51tzfm8n9s.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <45tzffdars.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214547767 12981 80.91.229.12 (27 Jun 2008 06:22:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 06:22:47 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Glenn Morris , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jun 27 08:23:32 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KC7Mp-0006bX-9V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 08:23:31 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:54690 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KC7Lz-0005hw-HP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KC7Lu-0005eV-2K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:22:34 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KC7Lt-0005da-EU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36693 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KC7Lt-0005dD-6j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:22:33 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]:53801) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KC7Lo-0007tk-FP; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:22:28 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com ([206.248.154.182]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KC7Ln-0007YP-Tw; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:22:28 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AqUFAKsjZEhFxIdG/2dsb2JhbACBW7EOgXM X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,714,1204520400"; d="scan'208";a="23306237" Original-Received: from 69-196-135-70.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.135.70]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 27 Jun 2008 02:22:26 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id CFD03801D; Fri, 27 Jun 2008 02:22:26 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Fri, 27 Jun 2008 11:12:01 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:99999 Archived-At: > I had been trying to support such a case (i.e. the DPI > specified for the default font is different from the > preferred bold version) by loosing the rule in font listing That's the problem with paying too much attention to the DPI setting, even though it's clearly a bogus setting (as evidenced by the fact that our faces don't have a `dpi' attribute (thank god)). I think the DPI should only be considered when choosing among fonts which are otherwise identical. Stefan