Highlighting a face?
Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson writes:
I've been wondering, is there a different way to say
"boldface" than
to inherit bold?
Not really. We could implement it today if XEmacs is using a modern
font backend, but in the old X bitmap font model you needed to create
a whole new glyph set. We've never updated that, so "bold" is not a
parameter of glyph rendering, it's conceptually a different font.
Currently I'm doing this in my init.el:
(set-face-property 'font-lock-variable-name-face
'highlight [bold highlight])
Does this actually do anything different from
(set-face-property 'font-lock-variable-name-face 'highlight t)
? The docstring for `set-face-property' says that the `highlight'
property is a Boolean. It also says it's only used on TTY devices.
On the other hand, it seems the lispref is lacking and I'm
curious
if there are other ways to do it.
Ben preferred using the docstrings rather than the lispref as primary
documentation. Dealing with the lispref is often a PITA because of
the Fscked-up Documentation License.
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