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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
Cc: crypto@timruffing.de, 67810@debbugs.gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
Subject: bug#67810: 29.1; fonts use synthetic bold on Linux / pgtk
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 08:24:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83il3wfn57.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87frz020di.fsf@yahoo.com> (message from Po Lu on Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:02:17 +0800)

> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> Cc: crypto@timruffing.de,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  67810@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2024 09:02:17 +0800
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
> >> Cc: crypto@timruffing.de,  stefankangas@gmail.com,  67810@debbugs.gnu.org
> >> Date: Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:46:28 +0800
> >> 
> >> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> >> 
> >> > Sorry, I don't understand what you are saying here.  Could you please
> >> > say it in simpler words?  What are "icon fonts"? and what do you mean
> >> > by "it can be removed"?
> >> 
> >> Fonts designed to provide symbol icons, which are inserted by packages
> >> that can control the `face' property of the text inserted.  Such fonts
> >> don't provide bold variants, and they did prompt this bug report.
> >
> > So you are talking about fonts that use PUA codepoints to show icons?
> > Or are you talking about fonts whose glyphs for "normal" characters
> > (i.e. characters defined by the Unicode Standard) are replaced with
> > icons that look similarly?
> 
> The former, yes.

OK, so what is the problem with allowing those users to have the
variable I proposed, for use with such fonts?





  reply	other threads:[~2024-01-14  6:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-13 12:03 bug#67810: 29.1; fonts use synthetic bold on Linux / pgtk Tim Ruffing
2023-12-13 12:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-13 13:28   ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-13 13:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-13 15:09       ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-13 15:43         ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-14  0:09         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-14  7:28           ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14  9:32             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-14  9:54             ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-14 10:04               ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14 10:37                 ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-14 11:19                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2023-12-14 11:26                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2023-12-14 15:06                   ` Tim Ruffing
2023-12-14 22:55                     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-11 15:50                       ` Tim Ruffing
2024-01-12  1:46                         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12  8:37                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12  9:59                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 11:46                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 12:20                                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 12:30                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-12 13:12                                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-12 14:12                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-13  0:46                                         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-13  6:59                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-14  1:02                                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14  6:24                                               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-01-14  8:09                                                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14  9:33                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-14 13:44                                                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 14:03                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-14 14:19                                                         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 14:55                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-01-15 13:11                                             ` Tim Ruffing
2024-01-13  6:37                           ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-14  0:55                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14  5:23                               ` Stefan Kangas
2024-01-14 10:20                                 ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 12:21                                   ` Manuel Giraud via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 14:10                                     ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-14 16:37                                       ` Manuel Giraud via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-15  0:36                                         ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-15 13:56                                           ` Manuel Giraud via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors
2024-01-15 14:02                                             ` Po Lu via Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors

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