Re: Kanji font selection (Mule showstopper?)

>>>>> "mb" == Martin Buchholz <martin(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: SJT> The poor selection of kanji fonts occurs with several 21.0 SJT> betas (Norwegian and Poitou at least). mb> Does it work to set the fonts in Lisp? mb> (set-face-font 'default SJT> OK, this works (with fonts that I actually have, of course). SJT> Um, where did the mule-fonts tag go? Doesn't it matter? The tag is just a method to allow you to manipulate multiple fonts as a set. Personally specified fonts should probably not use a tag. mb> If so, it is merely a matter of convenience and documentation mb> that the same functionality is not accessible via X resources. SJT> X resources are not the point; you and I can work with them or around SJT> them. SJT> The issue is that on my system, at least, any attempt to alter _any_ SJT> faces, font or size of any charset, via the Options menu results in SJT> completely unusable kanji fonts. These cannot be changed _at all_ SJT> outside of Lisp AFAIK, short of restarting XEmacs. SJT> That is not acceptable to ordinary users, and thus a showstopper IMO. SJT> Don't release a Mule XEmacs in this state, please. XEmacs has been in this state for a while. The whole font problem in XEmacs is really tough to fix, and should not be fixed for 21.0. SJT> Also, the fact that the initialization code produces completely SJT> different results from the normal operation code bothers me; I'm not SJT> sufficiently well-informed to know whether it's something that must SJT> (or even can) be fixed or not. But I don't like it. Code contributions are always welcome. Maybe some design work can be snarfed from other operating systems or applications. Martin