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Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:

>> The function Ffont_spec accepts a :name argument, but this is not
>> documented in the docstring.  Is this intentional, or an oversight?
>
> Ah, it's intentional.
>
> I'm still hesitating over which to choose
> (1) (font-spec :name name)
> (2) (font-spec "NAME")
> (3) (font-parse-name "NAME")
> for returning a font-spec from name.
>
> What do you think?

Let's go with (font-spec :name name).