RE: About the :distant-foreground face attribute

[Drew Adams]

> > been a source of annoyance over the years.  Introducing another
> > such situation should, in my view, be avoided as far as possible.
> 
> That's a good point.  Basically, what you're saying is that instead
> of :distant-foreground we could have a :foreground that can be of
> the form (NORMAL-FOREGROUND . ALTERNATE-FOREGROUND), where
> ALTERNATE-FOREGROUND is used when NORMAL-FOREGROUND would lead to a
> lack of contrast.

Please don't.  That too would break code that expects :foreground to
be as it is now.