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: Configuring fontsets with `unicode-fonts` [Was: Re: Should minibuffer prompt be made intangible by default?] Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 10:27:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83k2khu6u0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <56FD5468.1070609@gmail.com> <56FD9EDE.2010207@gmail.com> <878u0y9kdo.fsf@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1459495696 31578 80.91.229.3 (1 Apr 2016 07:28:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2016 07:28:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexis Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 01 09:28:04 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 1altUv-0005Cm-IQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 09:28:01 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:36360 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1altUu-0002qE-R0 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 03:28:00 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:41518) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1altUh-0002q9-LE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 03:27:48 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1altUe-0001Qb-FZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 03:27:47 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52611) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1altUe-0001QW-Cg; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 03:27:44 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:2767 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1altUd-0002xV-9v; Fri, 01 Apr 2016 03:27:43 -0400 In-reply-to: <878u0y9kdo.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Alexis on Fri, 01 Apr 2016 12:40:35 +1100) 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: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:202555 Archived-At: > From: Alexis > Date: Fri, 01 Apr 2016 12:40:35 +1100 > > > Thanks! Faces are one of the thing I *don't* use custom > > for. AFAIK it does not let you create and manipulate fontsets; I > > don't think we have any way to specify these properly, in > > fact. At least, the question at > > https://emacs.stackexchange.com/questions/17205/how-do-i-set-up-font-fallback-in-a-robust-way > > didn't get a single answer. > > i know i'm sounding like a broken record, but the `unicode-fonts` > might be what you're looking for: > > http://melpa.org/#/unicode-fonts Installing fonts doesn't necessarily resolve the fontset configuration problems, especially since no package can know what other fonts are available on the end-user system. So I'm not sure this has any relation to the question on stackexchange, because that question was describing a very specific situation where other fonts were involved (in unspecified ways). (The reason that question got no answers is because it was asked in the wrong place, btw.)