From: Thomas Morgan <tlm@ziiuu.com>
To: handa <handa@gnu.org>
Cc: 29630@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29630: 25.3; Unable to change fontset using :family face attribute
Date: Sat, 23 Dec 2017 21:25:22 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zi68elz1.fsf@ziiuu.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87d1382jnv.fsf@gnu.org> (handa@gnu.org's message of "Fri, 22 Dec 2017 00:19:16 +0900")
handa <handa@gnu.org> writes:
> Here, fontset works as just a provider of font-related properties
> (family, weight, size, etc), and then, based on the selected font, a new
> fontset is automatically created. This roundabout behavior was not to
> break (Emacs-internal) backward compatibility by introducing the concept
> of fontset.
Thank you, Handa-san.
(elisp)Face Attributes says this:
`:font'
[...] If you specify a string, the contents of the string should
be a font name (*note (emacs)Fonts::); if the font name is an XLFD
containing wildcards, Emacs chooses the first font matching those
wildcards. [...]
Would it make sense to add the following after the quoted sentence?
You may also specify a fontset name as a string. For reasons of
backward compatibility, in the case of the `default' face this may
automatically generate a new fontset based on the family, weight,
size, and other font-related properties of the specified fontset.
It would probably also be helpful to document the :fontset attribute
in the manual, if that's the proper way to specify a fontset for the
the frame's default face.
> At least, calling set-fontset-font for the fontset of the current frame
> should work... and worked as far as I rememnber... but I've just found
> that this does not work with the latest Emacs?!?
>
> (set-fontset-font nil 'unicode-bmp "dejavu sans mono")
> (set-fontset-font nil 'unicode-bmp "Freemono" nil 'append)
>
> I'm now checking what is wrong.
This seems to work for me with Emacs 25.3.1. To test it I started Emacs
with `emacs -Q' and evaluated this in *scratch*:
(progn
(set-fontset-font nil 'unicode-bmp "DejaVu Sans Mono")
(set-fontset-font nil 'unicode-bmp "FreeMono" nil 'append)
(list (font-at 0 nil "G") (font-at 0 nil "⅁")))
(The second character is TURNED SANS-SERIF CAPITAL G, which is covered
by FreeMono but not by DejaVu Sans Mono.)
As expected, this was displayed in the echo area:
(#<font-object "-PfEd-DejaVu Sans Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1">
#<font-object "-GNU -FreeMono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1">)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-24 5:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-12-09 21:26 bug#29630: 25.3; Unable to change fontset using :family face attribute Thomas Morgan
2017-12-10 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-21 15:19 ` handa
2017-12-24 5:25 ` Thomas Morgan [this message]
2017-12-27 12:33 ` handa
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