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| author | Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> | 2022-09-24 14:01:15 +0200 |
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| committer | Kévin Le Gouguec <kevin.legouguec@gmail.com> | 2022-09-24 14:02:50 +0200 |
| commit | 5b1dece2f7c8ff3bc3145ea456ef9934cb8846ae (patch) | |
| tree | 8b1bce9744d3711f20b3ba8443619aa0a4b012a5 | |
| parent | 577a1ca0695ea24e92f44ed486387095f4a68dda (diff) | |
| download | memory-leaks-5b1dece2f7c8ff3bc3145ea456ef9934cb8846ae.tar.xz | |
Jot down some notes about Emacs's low-level font management
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diff --git a/itches/emacs/tracker.org b/itches/emacs/tracker.org index 0c1ec57..2e57fe6 100644 --- a/itches/emacs/tracker.org +++ b/itches/emacs/tracker.org @@ -43,6 +43,18 @@ Fixed by Yamamoto Mitsuharu. :Role: author :END: Fixed by Yamamoto Mitsuharu. +**** Fonts +***** TODO Rank candidate fonts consistently wrt. their version field +I sometimes have two versions of a font installed, e.g. the +distro-provided one, plus an upstream one tucked in =~/.local=. + +Emacs seems to not use the same heuristics as fontconfig's ~fc-match~, +and sometimes picks the older version. + +No bug filed yet; discussed first on [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-gnu-emacs/2022-01/msg00042.html][help-gnu-emacs]] and [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2022-01/msg00725.html][emacs-devel]], +then brought up on the [[https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2022-January/006859.html][fontconfig mailing list]]. Tentative conclusion: +fontconfig's ~fc-match~ seems to take =FC_FONTVERSION= into account +when ranking fonts; it'd be nice if Emacs's ~find-font~ did so too. **** "Pure GTK" port ***** DONE [[https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2021-12/msg01845.html][emacs-devel:<87wnk0wyi7.fsf@gmail.com>]] Let =--with-webp= work with =--with-pgtk= :PROPERTIES: |