Re: Musings on the font-encoding property

[Werner LEMBERG]

>  
>>  AFAICS, the only limitation is that an ordinary text font with a
>> family name 'music' cannot be used.
> 
> No :-) unlike what its name suggests, the `font-family` property is
> a family symbol, not a font string (yes, it's another misnamed thing
> in font handling). The `font-family` values recognized by default
> are `'roman`, `'sans` and `'typewriter`. Nothing prevents you from
> doing

Ah.  Well, this makes the issue even more straightforward.

> The practical impact of the change is mostly a syntax modification
> that is not easy to convert-ly (the removal of `\text`, which should
> be replaced with `\roman`, `\sans` or `\typewriter` depending on the
> case).

We could make `\text` a no-op (it's rather seldom used, I reckon) and
`convert-ly` emit a warning.


    Werner