From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
Cc: flexibeast@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ping! Re: `font-spec` unable to retrieve :name of font
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 20:57:11 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ziz8up3c.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87611wcg97.fsf@esperi.org.uk>
> From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Emacs: the Swiss Army of Editors.
> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 18:45:24 +0100
>
> > i might see if i can use FontForge to change the name to something XLFD-friendly (e.g. 'InconsolataG').
>
> This seems like a transformation Emacs should be doing itself.
That's a chicken-and-egg problem: Emacs gets the XLFD name from a font
back-end, so it cannot change the name unless it has a means to deduce
that the -g part is not an XLFD field, but part of the name.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-24 17:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-10-13 2:13 `font-spec` unable to retrieve :name of font Alexis
2015-10-22 8:48 ` Ping! " Alexis
2015-10-22 14:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-10-23 9:55 ` Alexis
2015-10-24 17:45 ` Nix
2015-10-24 17:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2015-10-24 18:04 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-26 14:10 ` Nix
2015-10-27 2:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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