From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
Cc: 54685@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32)
Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:12:07 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a6d2f8o8.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJf-WoRkS_ARJ+Px1jixMgxiyC62nR=LaOesD+_J8=G_z3UDPQ@mail.gmail.com> (message from Corwin Brust on Sun, 3 Apr 2022 10:53:05 -0500)
> From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 10:53:05 -0500
> Cc: 54685@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> On Sun, Apr 3, 2022 at 10:03 AM Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> >
> > What other variants of this font do you have there?
>
> Here are all of the variants I have for the "Fira Sans" font.
(Why are we suddenly talking about Fira Sans, when your original
report was about Robot?)
> Thin**
> Thin Italic**
> UltraLight**
> UltraLight Italic**
> ExtraLight Italic**
> ExtraLight**
> Light**
> Light Italic**
> Semi Light**
> Semi Light Italic**
> Regular
> Italic
> Medium
> Medium Italic
> SemiBold**
> SemiBold Italic**
> Bold
> Bold Italic
> ExtraBold**
> ExtraBold Italic**
> Heavy**
> Heavy Italic**
>
> All variants appear correctly after I select them as default in the
> initial frame. Those followed by ** exhibit the problem: they aren't
> used in the new frame after the variant was selected as default in the
> initial frame.
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.
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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 [this message]
2022-04-03 16:23 ` Corwin Brust
2022-04-03 16:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-04-15 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
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