From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: set-face-attribute: apparent bug or doc error
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 15:41:41 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83tuwp37ga.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <832a7d52-6629-a9f3-c594-ddc6f0966374@mousecar.com> (message from ken on Wed, 26 Aug 2020 08:34:13 -0400)
> From: ken <gebser@mousecar.com>
> Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2020 08:34:13 -0400
>
> Executing
>
> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "alegreya" :foundry "misc"
> :slant normal :weight "medium" :height 258 :width "normal")
>
> yields error:
>
> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (void-variable normal)
> (set-face-attribute 'default nil :family "alegreya" :foundry "misc"
> :slant normal :weight "medium" :height 258 :width "normal")
> ....
>
> The doc string, however, says:
>
> ‘:slant’
>
> VALUE specifies the slant of the font to use. It must be one of the
> symbols ‘italic’, ‘oblique’, ‘normal’, ‘reverse-italic’, or
> ‘reverse-oblique’.
Try
:slant 'normal
(with the apostrophe), since the doc strings says it wants a symbol.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-26 12:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-26 12:34 set-face-attribute: apparent bug or doc error ken
2020-08-26 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-08-26 12:58 ` Tassilo Horn
2020-08-26 19:19 ` ken
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