Re: MULE & fonts

>>>>> "Glynn" == Glynn Clements <glynn(a)sensei.co.uk&gt; writes: Glynn> Olivier Galibert wrote: >> Anyone has the slightest idea on how we should handle font >> selection in XEmacs ? The Emacs fontset approach looks very >> difficult to use, and you have to provide one for each size you >> want your characters in. If someday we add truetype support >> either in the redisplay engine or the X server, the fontset >> concept explodes. Glynn> Would Motif's XmString/XmFontList approach work? A naive implementation would suffer from the same problems as far as I can tell; an XmFontList seems to based on an XFontSet, and defaults to rendering X Compound Text using the current locale. A more sophisticated implementation using tags would require that we add those semantics to non-Motif X font handling and all Windose font handling. Yuck. I think we need to decide the semantics we want, redesign it from the ground up, and then figure out ways to implement on all platforms: TTY, X, Motif, Windose. I like the three-dimensional approach in the Options menu (family, size, weight) for the default; we might want to allow more flexible specification if the font descriptions will support it (sans- v. serif), for example. And it would be nice to implement a way to prevent the server (as much as possible, this being X) from returning scaled versions of bitmap fonts. As much as possible, we should make it easier for users and programmers to select font schemes (so that font sizes and so on can be specified relative to the buffer's default face) than individual fonts. Maybe model it on HTML style sheets? Bill Perry has already written code for dealing with those.