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bug#14647: 24.3.50; doc of `set-face-font'
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
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bug#14647: 24.3.50; doc of `set-face-font' |
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Fri, 07 Feb 2014 23:05:32 -0800 |
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Gnus/5.13001 (Ma Gnus v0.10) Emacs/24.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com> writes:
> 1. Neither the Elisp manual (node `Attribute Functions') nor the doc
> string says what form the string FONT must or may take.
Good question. The function is barely used in the Emacs source code
tree. The only usage I could find that set it to something was this:
(defvar gamegrid-font "-*-courier-medium-r-*-*-*-140-100-75-*-*-iso8859-*"
"Name of the font used in X mode.")
> 2. The manual says that this command sets the :font attribute. The doc
> string says instead that it sets attributes :family, :foundry, :width,
> :height, :weight, and :slant. Which is it?
Yeah.
> 3. #1 is all the more imporatnt because the doc string of `x-list-fonts'
> says that it returns a list of strings that are "suitable as arguments
> to `set-face-font'. Really? Just what kind of strings are so suitable?
>
> I think, but am not sure, that FONT must be in XLFD form. Whatever the
> acceptable form(s), the doc needs to spell this out.
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