Re: Examining font properties under Windows

>>>>> "Hrvoje" == Hrvoje Niksic <[email protected]> writes:

    Hrvoje> Good points, all.  I'd still feel safer if that kind of
    Hrvoje> work were done by someone who actually understood both the
    Hrvoje> 1993 incantations *and* the modern ones.

Well, I'm gonna take a hack at it ... I don't know if I qualify on
"understand", but Jamie ain't gonna do it :-)

The jwz stuff, actually, I understand.  What I don't get is the jv/bw
set-font-to-bold-forcibly-or-ill-beat-yer-brains-out stuff.

    >> I think all we really have to do is to turn the "font" property
    >> of a face into a cache for user specs given as XLFD or MSFT
    >> font names, and separate out all the other properties.

    Hrvoje> FSF sets `font' automatically based on family, etc., so
    Hrvoje> the code that examines it keeps working.  We could do the
    Hrvoje> same.  Setting `font' directly to XLFD is obsolete, but it
    Hrvoje> can and should be respected.

You mean to the extent that the XLFD can be parsed into a set of
properties, right?

Note that where we're going users (including Lisp programmers) will
never see font instances except when debugging.  I think that's the
right direction.

    Hrvoje> for example by standardizing on `face-property' (like FSF
    Hrvoje> standardized on face-attribute) and declaring `face-*' and
    Hrvoje> `set-face-*' obsolete or semi-obsolete.

Why not `face-attribute'?  Do you really expect semantics to be
sufficiently different?

    Hrvoje> Also note that FSF supports putting color and font
    Hrvoje> specifications directly in extents, e.g.:

Actually, I like that API.  If the face is temporary, I don't see why
it needs to be explicit or have a name.

I've toyed with the idea that there should be an "extent" specifier
locale.  I can't get it to actually work, unfortunately (you might
have guessed), but it has interesting merits, too.

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