Re: font-backend branch

[Jason Rumney]

Kenichi Handa wrote:
> But, for that, we must at first change,
> for instance, the return value of (frame-parameter nil
> 'font) from string to font-object, and check how that change
> influence the other part.   That't the future plan
>   

I was going to suggest exactly that. Then if people depend on the format 
of the font names, and do not want to move to using font-put, font-get 
etc, then they can use font-xlfd-name to get it in the format they need.