From: Nix <nix@esperi.org.uk>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Ping! Re: `font-spec` unable to retrieve :name of font
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2015 14:10:17 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wpu97mba.fsf@esperi.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e828cce3-5bac-4ac5-9b52-981faeb8792a@default> (Drew Adams's message of "Sat, 24 Oct 2015 11:04:42 -0700 (PDT)")
On 24 Oct 2015, Drew Adams said:
>> after all, the XLFD variant is never going to be displayed to the user,
>> nor passed to Fontconfig: it's just an internal thing for parts of
>> Emacs expecting XLFDs.
>
> Just a comment on this part of what you wrote.
>
> XLFD format _is_ visible to users. And it can be used by them.
>
> I use it, for example, to transform a font to another of a
> different size, resulting also in a frame of a different size.
> This use case is quite important to my use of Emacs, FWIW.
In that case we need an escaping mechanism even more :) it just needs to
gain an additional requirement: not to be pig ugly.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-10-26 14:10 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
2015-10-24 18:04 ` Drew Adams
2015-10-26 14:10 ` Nix [this message]
2015-10-27 2:32 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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