Re: [PATCH] Use system underline and struck thru fonts

-BP> I meant that with a fully specified font, there would be no -BP> 'arbitrary' choices involved. Although some things from the -BP> default face wouldn't necessarily make sense if you've -BP> changed charsets, etc. Hrm. Bingo. It's not clear to me that properties of the default face would necessarily work across font renderers (X vs. Type 1 vs. TrueType vs. the new unification of the last two vs. ...), either. -BP> font-maximum-slippage ??? -BP> Isn't a lot of this taken care of by the charset hints right -BP> now? I'm tired and getting a bit lost, so forgive me if I -BP> misremember. :) "charset hints"? Are you referring to the fact that font specifier handling in XEmacs takes special note of font registries for X fonts? Or are you referring to the spec that Per posted a couple days ago? In the current situation in XEmacs charset processing does almost nothing except enhance the probability that a given character maps to a glyph in the font to near 100% (as usual, exceptions are easy to find in Japanese, and are due to the fact that Japanese vendors consider a standard to be a guide to places where they can improve monopoly posture by differentiating themselves in some random way). This is a GoodThang[tm], of course, but nowhere near sufficient. I haven't digested the Emacs 21 spec that Per posted, but it looks like it might have some hope of accomplishing a lot of what I would like to see done---for existing properties of fonts I know about in X. Maybe it will do for TrueType and Type 1 and the new TrueType/ Type 1 conglobulated standard ("Open Face"? sounds like the lunch menu at a steakhouse), too, but I don't know enough about them (especially the last) to be sure, and the large number of references to "X" in the doc don't give me a warm fuzzy feeling. -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."