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From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, cloos@jhcloos.com,
	Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 09:40:50 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87lk1e4tgd.fsf@stupidchicken.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1K5a1w-0008O3-Fb@etlken.m17n.org> (Kenichi Handa's message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:34:56 +0900")

Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:

>> Is there a reason to think that Emacs does a better job than fontconfig
>> at finding a match?
>
> At least, the current Emacs can know that a font of a
> specific family doesn't exist.

Does this capability provide any benefit to the user?  What I don't yet
understand is what problems might arise if Emacs always displays a
best-match font, even if there isn't any good match for the :family
attribute supplied by the user.  As far as I can tell, there isn't any
downside.




  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-06-09 13:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-07 16:23 Fixed-pitch and variable-pitch faces Chong Yidong
2008-06-07 16:28 ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-07 18:56 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-07 20:33   ` David Hansen
2008-06-07 21:34   ` James Cloos
2008-06-08 11:29     ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-09  1:29       ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-09  2:59         ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-09  4:49           ` Chong Yidong
2008-06-09  5:17             ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09  5:34               ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-09  6:14                 ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09  6:20                   ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09  7:20                     ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-09  7:56                       ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09 11:06                         ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-09 11:38                           ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09 12:06                             ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-09 12:09                               ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09 11:26                         ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-09  6:35                   ` Kenichi Handa
2008-06-09  6:41                     ` Miles Bader
2008-06-09 13:40                 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-06-10  1:06                 ` Stefan Monnier
2008-06-10  1:44                   ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-06-10  8:01                     ` James Cloos

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