Re: Merging customize support

Per Abrahamsen <abraham(a)dina.kvl.dk&gt; writes: > wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes: > > > Sure. We should really just try to emulate the real font model that

> > Emacs 21 right now though. This would be a huge win for cross-platform > > setting of font resources. > > In Emacs 21 :bold and :italic are being fased out in favor of :weight > and :slant. :bold and :italic are still recognized by `defface' for > backward compatibility, but not by `customize-face'. > > Do you want XEmacs 21.2 to go the same way? We should stay consistent of course, but what I _really_ meant was that the new face model that Emacs uses internally should be adopted by XEmacs. This is basically moving font.el into the core C code and making it nice and studly. So to make a face in Emacs 21 now, you do: (make-face 'foo) (set-face-attribute 'foo nil :family "lucidatypewriter" :width 'normal :height 200 :weight 'normal :foreground "red" :background "pink" :strike-through t) and you get Attachment Converted: "c:\eudora\attach\emacs21-fonts.gif" It keeps a face cache on a per-frame basis. The actual code to implement the font matching is trivial. I think what we'd need to do is add a new device method for 'realize_font' that gets passed a property list. This way if windows wants to support dropcaps or other funky face properties that would be a bitch under X or TTY, it can. -Bill P.