Re: sans-serif name change

[Stefan Monnier]

>> My guess is that the `-' in Sans-Serif is being treated as a separator
>> character, and causes Emacs to look for a font called Serif with the
>> foundry Sans, or something similar.

> Yes.  I didn't change that behaviour for backward
> compatibility, but as face has the attribute :foundy now, it
> may be ok to break that compatibility.

> The parsing of XXX-YYY as FOUNDRY-FAMILY is now done in
> the function set-face-attribute as this:

>       (if (and (eq (car args) :family)
>                (stringp (cadr args))
>                (string-match "\\([^-]*\\)-\\([^-]*\\)" (cadr args)))
>           (let ((foundry (match-string 1 (cadr args)))
>                 (family (match-string 2 (cadr args))))
>             (internal-set-lisp-face-attribute face :foundry
>                                               (purecopy foundry)
>                                               where)
>             (internal-set-lisp-face-attribute face :family
>                                               (purecopy family)
>                                               where))
>         (internal-set-lisp-face-attribute face (car args)
>                                           (purecopy (cadr args))
>                                           where)))

Maybe this "FOUNDRY-FAMILY" fallback code could be moved to the same
code that handles face-font-family-alternatives?


        Stefan