Re: Continuing Font Problems: Some XFT fonts not using XFT engine?

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org> writes:
>> This isn't such a problem for most apps, which only understand one of
>> the two types of fonts, but it may terribly confuse Emacs, which can
>> handle both simultaneously.
>
> There should be an order imposed on font backends. So one backend should
> always take precedence over the other, and duplicate font names should
> not matter. It used to work that way, but it seems from reports of this
> type that something has changed recently.

There is an order, but, given that the backends are quite different, the
(visible-to-emacs) details are probably often slightly different.  It
seems like there are certain situations where the font exported by the
non-preferred backend somehow looks like a better match for some set of
font attributes specified by emacs...

-Miles

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