Re: Font slants

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> On a related note, what's the story behind these settings?
>
>> (defcustom font-swidth-table
>>   '((ultracondensed . 50) (ultra-condensed . 51)
>>   ...
>
>> Why do we have a practically indistinguishable difference between
>> ultracondensed and ultra-condensed?  Similarly with several other
>> symbols in these alists.
>
> Try to change it (or check vc-annotate) to see why: it needs to be
> bijective (ie. reversible).

Would it be possible for Emacs to change all occurrences of
`ultracondensed' to `ultra-condensed' internally?  That would also
eliminate the annoyance of having a value menu within Customize that
gives separate choices for `ultracondensed' and `ultra-condensed'.