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> A related questions is whether the remapping should be visible to lisp code
> using face functions.  For instance, does (face-attribute 'default :family)
> 1. return the remapped family, or 2. return the family of the `underlying'
> default face?

The advantage of not provding MERGE-FACE(s) but relying on :inherit instead
is that those problems have already been addressed there.


        Stefan