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: Continuing Font Problems: Some XFT fonts not using XFT engine? Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 08:40:42 +0800 Message-ID: <49E67E8A.20402@gnu.org> References: <20090415201122.GA28776@metasyntax.net> <87tz4p5yk7.fsf@catnip.gol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1239842537 10547 80.91.229.12 (16 Apr 2009 00:42:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 00:42:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 16 02:43:36 2009 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 1LuFhP-0004kd-V3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 16 Apr 2009 02:43:28 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39365 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LuFg1-0001eF-3R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:42:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LuFfN-0001Jp-AX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LuFfI-0001I3-1S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:41:20 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=37952 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LuFfH-0001I0-SU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:41:15 -0400 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-3.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.23]:24387) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LuFfG-0008VI-5C; Wed, 15 Apr 2009 20:41:14 -0400 Original-X-Trace: 238129941/mk-outboundfilter-1.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$F2S-INTERNET-ACCEPTED/None/61.4.103.130/None/jasonr@gnu.org X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 61.4.103.130 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-SMTP-AUTH: jasonr-f2s-com X-MUA: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ArgBAAMb5kk9BGeC/2dsb2JhbAAI0TODfQY X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.40,195,1238972400"; d="scan'208";a="238129941" X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from unknown (HELO [10.1.1.112]) ([61.4.103.130]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 16 Apr 2009 01:41:11 +0100 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (Windows/20090302) In-Reply-To: <87tz4p5yk7.fsf@catnip.gol.com> X-detected-operating-system: 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:110304 Archived-At: Miles Bader wrote: > This isn't such a problem for most apps, which only understand one of > the two types of fonts, but it may terribly confuse Emacs, which can > handle both simultaneously. > There should be an order imposed on font backends. So one backend should always take precedence over the other, and duplicate font names should not matter. It used to work that way, but it seems from reports of this type that something has changed recently.