Subject: Re: bug#1547: face-font-rescale-alist has no effect

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 17 Apr 2009 00:23:51 -0400

> What I currently don't understand is that the font rescaling doesn't
> work for the default font in the above case even after
> (clear-face-cache t).  I'm now investigating the reason.

I think the problem here is that the opened font objects are already
stored in the LFACE_FONT entry of the default face.  Note that

M-: (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font (font-spec)) RET

successfully refreshes the face with the correct rescaling.