GNU bug report logs - #1785
Font scaling does not work for the default font in some cases

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: "Juanma Barranquero" <lekktu <at> gmail.com>

Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:00:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 23.0.60

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #46 received at 1785 <at> emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Chong Yidong <cyd <at> stupidchicken.com>
Cc: 1785 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Kenichi Handa <handa <at> m17n.org>
Subject: Re: bug#1785: bug#1547: face-font-rescale-alist has no effect
Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2009 14:14:52 -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.

> Until a better solution comes along, I propose dealing with this
> situation with the following hack in startup.el: check to see if the
> init file changed face-font-rescale-alist, and reload the default face
> if necessary.

Can't we fix it right and make clear-face-cache refresh the default face
as well?  If the right fix is really too much trouble, then I guess your
workaround is OK, but then it needs to come with a heavy dose of
comments explaining why it's there and how to get rid of it.


        Stefan
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