Re: Merging customize support
Per Abrahamsen <abraham(a)dina.kvl.dk> writes:
wmperry(a)aventail.com (William M. Perry) writes:
> Sure. We should really just try to emulate the real font model that is in
> 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
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.
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