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Re: When and how to register various font backends
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Michael Welsh Duggan |
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Re: When and how to register various font backends |
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Sun, 16 Jun 2019 23:03:28 -0400 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> But what about being able to specify the backend(s) via
> default-frame-alist in the init file, and expecting that to affect all
> the frames including the initial one? Mitsuharu's proposal allows
> that, whereas mine doesn't. That's because in my implementation the
> font backend is registered at frame creation time, and only the
> backends known to be requested at that time are registered. So when
> we call modify-frame-parameters later, after processing the init file,
> to make default-frame-alist parameters take effect, you cannot request
> a backend that wasn't registered.
>
> By contrast, Mitsuharu's method registers all the backends, but only
> activates some of them. So modify-frame-parameters can work, because
> it just needs to activate an already registered backend.
>
> I hope the difference is clearer now, and people can voice their
> opinions.
I find that I, at some point, specified a font-backend ordering by
modifying the default-frame-alist in my init file. So, although my
reasons for doing that are by now obscure and possibly defunct, I did,
at least, assume that this would work at some time in the past.
--
Michael Welsh Duggan
(address@hidden)
- When and how to register various font backends, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/07
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, Robert Pluim, 2019/06/14
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/14
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, Robert Pluim, 2019/06/14
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/14
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/15
- Re: When and how to register various font backends,
Michael Welsh Duggan <=
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, Robert Pluim, 2019/06/17
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/17
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2019/06/17
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/18
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2019/06/18
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/06/19
- Re: When and how to register various font backends, Andy Moreton, 2019/06/14
Re: When and how to register various font backends, YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu, 2019/06/14