giving up x-symbol and xft

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an seachtú lá déag de mí Márta, scríobh Stefan Holst: 

 > I need to admit, that I do not understand enough to get it running 
 > successfully. But let me please summarize what I tried:
 > somewhere early in the init.el:
 > (require 'x-symbol-unicode)
 > According to the default face font the behavior was much different:
 > (set-face-font 'default "SImPL-14")
 > the charsyms redefined in x-symbol-unicode.el get displayed nicely.
 > In case I set:
 > (set-face-font 'default "Arial-14")
 > only the charsyms contained also directly in the arial font get 
 > displayed. 

Bugger. 

I’ve looked through faces.el, specifier.c, faces.c and the Lispref, and I
can’t work out a way to assign a specific X11 or Xft font to a given XEmacs
face when displaying a particular Mule character set. I can’t even work out
where you got the information on (define-specifier-tag 'lang-ja) and the
(set-face-font ...) that you’re using in the XFT docs, Stephen. So at least
the docs need more info, and if not we need to add this functionality. 

Stefan, adding 

(setq x-symbol-xsymb0-fonts '("SImPL-14")
      x-symbol-xsymb1-fonts '("SImPL-14"))

to the end of your code might just get it running for you. I don’t have the
fonts locally to test, unless you’re pointing FreeType towards the PCF
ones. 

 > This does not change if I specify SImPL to be part of the 
 > preferred alias of sans defined in ~/.fonts.conf
 > the font forwarding of x-symbol-init-cset reaches not until object-x.c 
 > where patternxft always contain the font specified either via .Xdefaults 
 > or set-face-font.
 > This might have something to do with x-symbol-xmacs.el 
 > x-symbol-set-face-font, I would guess.

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