From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#14629: 24.3.50; (elisp) `Face Attributes', :font -> "font object" Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 17:01:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83zhheiaox.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8519799d-4c07-4eb2-850e-95f90af49ca0@default> Injection-Info: blaine.gmane.org; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:195.159.176.226"; logging-data="261725"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@blaine.gmane.org" Cc: 14629@debbugs.gnu.org To: Drew Adams Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Nov 02 16:04:06 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.89) (envelope-from ) id 1iQuwf-0015wH-Jl for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 16:04:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48316 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQuwd-0006Xc-Eq for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:04:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54083) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iQuui-00053t-S6 for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:02:05 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQuug-0005IG-Ss for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:02:03 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.43]:52256) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQuug-0005HH-Oi for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:02:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQuug-0008T9-KJ for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:02:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:02:02 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 14629 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs Original-Received: via spool by 14629-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B14629.157270691832544 (code B ref 14629); Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:02:02 +0000 Original-Received: (at 14629) by debbugs.gnu.org; 2 Nov 2019 15:01:58 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:32844 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQuuc-0008Sq-Bi for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:01:58 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([209.51.188.92]:44990) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1iQuua-0008Sa-4p for 14629@debbugs.gnu.org; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:01:57 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:56650) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iQuuT-0004bb-M0; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1678 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iQuuO-0000aj-IP; Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:01:46 -0400 In-reply-to: <8519799d-4c07-4eb2-850e-95f90af49ca0@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:37:56 -0700 (PDT)) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 209.51.188.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:170814 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 17 Jun 2013 09:37:56 -0700 (PDT) > From: Drew Adams > > > (*note Attribute Functions::), you may also supply a font spec, > > What is a font spec? Is it something like the XLFD string above? > > > a font entity, > > What is a font entity? There's a cross-reference there to "Low-Level Font", which tells you something about these objects. > > or a string. > > What kind of string? What's the format? There's a cross-reference there to "Fonts" in the Emacs manual, which answers that question. > > Emacs converts such values to an appropriate font object, > > As I mentioned before, "font object" seems to be defined nowhere - > at least not in the node cross-referenced for it. What is a font > object? See above. > Beyond the doc, there is a real product bug - see #14634. > In particular, attribute :font seems to have *no effect* when you do, > for example, this: > > (propertize myfont 'face (list :font myfont)) What is 'myfont' in this example?