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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
Cc: 54685-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:34:15 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <838rsmf7nc.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJf-WoTG8mtmixXRr3gw+NXz4jmtSuHeZV3Yqfhv2bE=YCefhw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Corwin Brust on Sun, 3 Apr 2022 11:23:25 -0500)

> From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 11:23:25 -0500
> Cc: 54685@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > If so, then this is expected.  The APIs we use on MS-Windows to
> > enumerate fonts in a font family consider only 4 font varieties to
> > belong to the same family: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold-Italic.
> > All the other varieties aren't returned by those APIs when we request
> > to list all the fonts in a family.  (I don't know if this is just the
> > deficiency of the APIs we use, or a general issue with how fonts are
> > managed on Windows.)  So any font variety that is not one of those 4
> > will cause trouble sooner or later.  (Medium is special, because we
> > have an extra-special kludge to allow Medium when Regular is being
> > sought.)
> >
> > So I think what you see is expected: on Windows one cannot select a
> > Light (or Thin, or UltraLight, or SemiBold, or ...) font for the
> > default face and hope that it will work as expected.
> 
> In which case I think this bug report can be closed.  Thank you.

Done.  I will at some time add a PROBLEMS entry about this.





  reply	other threads:[~2022-04-03 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-04-02 23:48 bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32) Corwin Brust
2022-04-03  5:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-03 14:49   ` Corwin Brust
2022-04-03 15:03     ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-03 15:53       ` Corwin Brust
2022-04-03 16:12         ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-03 16:23           ` Corwin Brust
2022-04-03 16:34             ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2022-04-15 12:39               ` Eli Zaretskii

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