From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-face-attribute: apparent bug or doc error
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:19:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cb724450-614d-326d-9536-fe35bcf08002@mousecar.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87eent5ztw.fsf@gnu.org>
On 8/26/20 8:58 AM, Tassilo Horn wrote:
> ken <gebser@mousecar.com> writes:
>
>> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "alegreya" :foundry "misc"
>> :slant normal :weight "medium" :height 258 :width "normal")
> ^^^^^^
>> yields error:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable normal)
>> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "alegreya" :foundry "misc"
>> :slant normal :weight "medium" :height 258 :width "normal")
>> ....
>>
>> The doc string, however, says:
>>
>> ‘:slant’
>>
>> VALUE specifies the slant of the font to use. It must be one of the
>> symbols ‘italic’, ‘oblique’, ‘normal’, ‘reverse-italic’, or
>> ‘reverse-oblique’.
> Exactly, it must be a symbol, so use :slant 'normal.
>
> Bye,
> Tassilo
Great! That did it!!
I wish the doc string would be more explicit, like "since the VALUE is a
symbol, it must begin with an apostrophe", pretty much what you and Eli
said... and/or give some example usages. That would be a big help to
elisp dummies like myself.
Also, I copy-and-pasted the whole of the variables and values from a
line put into my ~/.gnu-emacs-custom automatically when I used the emacs
menu (Options -> Set Default Font) to configure emacs with a larger
font. When it worked there, it surprised me when it didn't work when I
put it into my ~/.emacs ... the line in ~/.gnu-emacs-custom looks like this:
'(default ((t (:family "alegreya" :foundry "misc" :slant normal :weight
normal :height 158 :width normal)))))
Thanks again, guys. My whole .emacs seems to be working now.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-26 19:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-26 12:34 set-face-attribute: apparent bug or doc error ken
2020-08-26 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-08-26 12:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2020-08-26 19:19 ` ken [this message]
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