Re: X fontomania

>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Knauel <[email protected]> writes:

    Eric> If I understood font specifiers correctly, they establish a
    Eric> 1:1-relation between a device-type and some kind of a font
    Eric> description (i.e. the core font name as a string).

No, it's many-many, conditional on what's found and which buffer and
so on.  However stuff like family vs size vs weight is not handled
very orthogonally.  lisp/font.el tries to make up for this, with
little success.  fontconfig's model is good, and could be implemented
in many specifiers, or we could implement a single fontconfig
specifier where fontconfig is available.

    Eric> I would suggest to wrap the fontconfig objects in some
    Eric> x-font-description records before storing them in a font
    Eric> specifier and provide fontconfig-like manipulation functions
    Eric> for x-font-description records (of both subtypes).

Sounds good, let's talk about it.  Do you have a spec in mind?


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