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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 1c58fa1: Fix variable-pitch font on MS-Windows
Date: Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:48:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvtwij6wu4.fsf-monnier+emacsdiffs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1awRdn-00031p-5c@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 30 Apr 2016 09:56:47 +0000")

> -  '((t :family "Sans Serif"))
> +  '((((type w32))
> +     ;; This is a kludgey workaround for an issue discussed in
> +     ;; http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2016-04/msg00746.html.
> +     :font "-outline-Arial-normal-normal-normal-sans-*-*-*-*-p-*-iso8859-1")
> +    (t :family "Sans Serif"))

This is really curious.  Why does Emacs pick a bold-italic face when we
don't specify bold (nor italic)?

I understand that the above defface doesn't explicitly specify ":slanted
nil", but it's still very puzzling.


        Stefan



       reply	other threads:[~2016-04-30 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <E1awRdn-00031p-5c@vcs.savannah.gnu.org>
2016-04-30 13:48   ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2016-04-30 14:03     ` [Emacs-diffs] emacs-25 1c58fa1: Fix variable-pitch font on MS-Windows Eli Zaretskii
2016-04-30 14:33       ` Stefan Monnier

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