Re: Musings on the font-encoding property

[David Kastrup]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@gnu.org> writes:

>>  
>>>  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.

A default conversion of \text to \roman would likely match more than 90%
of the current uses.

-- 
David Kastrup