From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Accessing rendered image data Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 21:21:28 +0300 Message-ID: <83k2h9w4wn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83r3bhw7km.fsf@gnu.org> <83mvm5w5fi.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1467138145 30489 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2016 18:22:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 18:22:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Jun 28 20:22:23 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1bHxeP-0006EI-5E for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:22:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38688 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bHxeO-0003Fb-Cq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:22:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50596) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bHxeA-00035h-Ja for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:22:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bHxe8-00017O-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:22:06 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:59380) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bHxe8-00017H-Ip; Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:22:04 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4508 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bHxe5-00074r-NZ; Tue, 28 Jun 2016 14:22:04 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen on Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:15:05 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:204883 Archived-At: > From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2016 20:15:05 +0200 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > And I still don't understand how all this helps you to get what you > > want. > > It does. Trust me. :-) And you should trust me that I don't like wasting my time on digging into problems whose purpose I don't fully understand ;-) > In any case, shouldn't this work? Should I care? > (insert (propertize "FOO" 'face (list :font (find-font (font-spec :name "futura" :size 40))))) > > It doesn't work, and I wonder why. Do more specs in the font-spec need > to be specified for Emacs to decide to use the Futura font? How should I know? This stuff is not documented at all, so you are asking me to step in a debugger through gobs of unfamiliar and complicated code, without ever understanding what is it that I'm trying to accomplish. That's not in my job description. If you want my help, try telling more.