Re: [ELPA] Add fontaine package?

[Protesilaos Stavrou]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 23:18:45 -0400
>
>   > I have a new package called "fontaine" that I would like to offer to the
>   > FSF for inclusion in GNU ELPA (see attached patch).  Conceptually, this
>   > is similar to the 'cursory' package I submitted last week: the user
>   > defines presets of font configurations and can switch between them on
>   > demand.
>
> What's the difference between them?  What feature does fontaine
> offer, tht cursory doesn't have?

Cursory ultimately applies configurations to variables such as
'cursor-type' and 'blink-cursor-delay'.  Whereas Fontaine changes the
typographic attributes of faces like 'default' and 'fixed-pitch'.  By
"typographic attributes", I mean the ':family', ':height', ':weight'.

> Could that feature be added as an option to cursory?

I think it is better to keep the two feature sets separate.  It makes
things easier to maintain and more straightforward to document.  I can,
however, update the documentation in each package to reference the
other.

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