Re: Problem with narrow vs condensed fonts

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Jason Rumney <address@hidden> writes:

> Kenichi Handa wrote:
> > 2008-02-01  Jason Rumney  <address@hidden>
> >
> >     * font.c (font_parse_fcname): Default weight and slant to normal.
> >
> > Jason, could you explain why we should set the default
> > values for weight and slant in font_parse_fcname?
> >   

> Without that, the weight and slant were uninitialised, and Emacs was 
> randomly opening italic and bold fonts, at least on Windows.

On X also, if we start Emacs with, for instance, "-fn
-*-fixed-*--16-*-iso8859-1", Emacs may use an italic font
(even without font-backend), which is the same as xterm.
It's upto the behaviour of font backend.  For instance, with
Xft font-backend, as it uses fontconfig library for font
selection and fontconfig has system wide default preference,
"-fn monospace-12" will results in non-italic, non-bold
font.

If we are going to implement the feature "prefer normal
style font if a user doesn't specify anything", I think it
should be done in the different place, not in
font_parse_fcname.

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Kenichi Handa
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