From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: sans-serif name change Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:10:23 +0100 Message-ID: <4862198F.4060305@gnu.org> References: <87hcbi9vbg.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1214388674 28115 80.91.229.12 (25 Jun 2008 10:11:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 10:11:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Andreas Schwab , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 25 12:11:58 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 1KBRyl-0007Kg-3y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 12:11:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:49513 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBRxv-0005nF-5v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:11:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBRxk-0005n7-Ik for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:10:52 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KBRxi-0005mv-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:10:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43511 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KBRxh-0005ms-NL for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:10:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-5.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.1]:63986) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KBRxc-0001eL-47; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:10:44 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 49003133/mk-outboundfilter-5.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEABy2YUhTQxds/2dsb2JhbACBW7A+ X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.27,701,1204502400"; d="scan'208";a="49003133" X-IP-Direction: IN Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO wanchan.jasonrumney.net) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP; 25 Jun 2008 11:10:42 +0100 Original-Received: from [192.168.249.27] (chiko.jasonrumney.net [192.168.249.27]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id D69702EC; Wed, 25 Jun 2008 11:11:46 +0100 (BST) User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (Windows/20080421) In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 OpenPGP: id=8086879D X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:99907 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > (set-face-attribute 'variable-pitch nil :family "Sans-Serif") > > does not (it uses some random font instead); using "Sans Serif" does > work with set-face-attribute. > > So it looks like there's a bug somewhere (but we should fix that, not > kludge around it). My guess is that the `-' in Sans-Serif is being treated as a separator character, and causes Emacs to look for a font called Serif with the foundry Sans, or something similar.