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bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32) |
Date: |
Fri, 15 Apr 2022 15:39:37 +0300 |
> Date: Sun, 03 Apr 2022 19:34:15 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: 54685-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > From: Corwin Brust <corwin@bru.st>
> > Date: Sun, 3 Apr 2022 11:23:25 -0500
> > Cc: 54685@debbugs.gnu.org
> >
> > > If so, then this is expected. The APIs we use on MS-Windows to
> > > enumerate fonts in a font family consider only 4 font varieties to
> > > belong to the same family: Regular, Italic, Bold, and Bold-Italic.
> > > All the other varieties aren't returned by those APIs when we request
> > > to list all the fonts in a family. (I don't know if this is just the
> > > deficiency of the APIs we use, or a general issue with how fonts are
> > > managed on Windows.) So any font variety that is not one of those 4
> > > will cause trouble sooner or later. (Medium is special, because we
> > > have an extra-special kludge to allow Medium when Regular is being
> > > sought.)
> > >
> > > So I think what you see is expected: on Windows one cannot select a
> > > Light (or Thin, or UltraLight, or SemiBold, or ...) font for the
> > > default face and hope that it will work as expected.
> >
> > In which case I think this bug report can be closed. Thank you.
>
> Done. I will at some time add a PROBLEMS entry about this.
Now done.
- bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32), Corwin Brust, 2022/04/02
- bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/03
- bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32), Corwin Brust, 2022/04/03
- bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/03
- bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32), Corwin Brust, 2022/04/03
- bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/03
- bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32), Corwin Brust, 2022/04/03
- bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32), Eli Zaretskii, 2022/04/03
- bug#54685: 28.0.92; incorrect font on new frame after menu-set-font (Win32),
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