Re: sans-serif name change

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

>> My guess is that the `-' in Sans-Serif is being treated as a separator
>> character, and causes Emacs to look for a font called Serif with the
>> foundry Sans, or something similar.

> Yes.  I didn't change that behaviour for backward
> compatibility, but as face has the attribute :foundy now, it
> may be ok to break that compatibility.

> The parsing of XXX-YYY as FOUNDRY-FAMILY is now done in
> the function set-face-attribute as this:

> 	(if (and (eq (car args) :family)
> 		 (stringp (cadr args))
> 		 (string-match "\\([^-]*\\)-\\([^-]*\\)" (cadr args)))
> 	    (let ((foundry (match-string 1 (cadr args)))
> 		  (family (match-string 2 (cadr args))))
> 	      (internal-set-lisp-face-attribute face :foundry
> 						(purecopy foundry)
> 						where)
> 	      (internal-set-lisp-face-attribute face :family
> 						(purecopy family)
> 						where))
> 	  (internal-set-lisp-face-attribute face (car args)
> 					    (purecopy (cadr args))
> 					    where)))

Maybe this "FOUNDRY-FAMILY" fallback code could be moved to the same
code that handles face-font-family-alternatives?


        Stefan