Re: Ping! Re: `font-spec` unable to retrieve :name of font

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Nix <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> Emacs: the Swiss Army of Editors.
> Date: Sat, 24 Oct 2015 18:45:24 +0100
> 
> > i might see if i can use FontForge to change the name to something 
> > XLFD-friendly (e.g. 'InconsolataG').
> 
> This seems like a transformation Emacs should be doing itself.

That's a chicken-and-egg problem: Emacs gets the XLFD name from a font
back-end, so it cannot change the name unless it has a means to deduce
that the -g part is not an XLFD field, but part of the name.