Re: Merging customize support

Ben> Make sure your spec is window-system-independent and that you Ben> address Hrvoje's points w.r.t. bold, underline, inverse, etc. IMO, a font is necessarily window-system-dependent because it is a set of _rendered_ glyphs. People often have preferences over bitmap, Type 1, and TrueType renderings of the "same" font once they see them on-screen. How can you hope to be window-system-independent when there are implementation dependencies _within_ window systems? We need a way to specify face properties independently of window systems, both for WhatYouSeeIsGoodEnoughForGovernmentWork previewers and for user convenience. We also need to be able to specify font properties in an implementation-dependent way at the implementation level. I don't see what's wrong with making that available to users who want the fine control on a specific system for WhenYouWontSettle- ForLessThanTheVeryBest. And how about user-defined faces that use user-defined fonts (eg, for a game)? How do we propose to fit those into a generic scheme of face properties? -- 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."