Package: emacs;
Reported by: Thomas Morgan <tlm <at> ziiuu.com>
Date: Sat, 9 Dec 2017 21:41:02 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 25.3
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From: Thomas Morgan <tlm <at> ziiuu.com> To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org Subject: 25.3; Unable to use custom fontset as frame default font Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 16:32:39 -0500
I started Emacs with `emacs -Q', entered the following expression
in *scratch*, and evaluated it with C-M-x:
(progn
;; Create a new fontset called fontset-liberation.
(create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
"-*-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-liberation")
;; Set its primary font to Liberation Mono.
(set-fontset-font "fontset-liberation" 'unicode-bmp "Liberation Mono")
;; Add a fallback to Freemono for characters that Liberation Mono lacks.
(set-fontset-font "fontset-liberation" 'unicode-bmp "Freemono:size=40"
nil 'append)
;; Set the frame's default font to the new fontset.
(set-face-font 'default "fontset-liberation")
;; Return font objects for "a", an ASCII character that Liberation Mono has,
;; and "ȷ" (LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J), a character in Freemono but
;; not in Liberation Mono.
(list (font-at 0 nil "a") (font-at 0 nil "ȷ")))
The result was this:
(#<font-object "-1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1">
#<font-object "-1ASC-Liberation Serif-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1">)
The font for ASCII character "a" was Liberation Mono as expected, but
I expected the second font to be Freemono and it was Liberation Serif.
I checked which fontset is being used as default:
(face-attribute 'default :fontset)
It's fontset-auto1, not fontset-liberation:
"-1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1"
I typed `M-x describe-fontset RET fontset-auto1 RET'.
Fontset: -1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1
CHAR RANGE (CODE RANGE)
FONT NAME (REQUESTED and [OPENED])
C-@ .. (#x43 .. #x9F)
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
.. ɏ (#xA0 .. #x24F)
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
[-1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1]
[-1ASC-Liberation Serif-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1]
ɐ .. [#x3FFF7F] (#x250 .. #x3FFF7F)
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
[\200] .. [\377] (#x3FFF80 .. #x3FFFFF)
-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1
---<fallback to the default fontset>---
[...]
(Non-UTF8 characters are replaced with representations in brackets.)
So fontset-auto1 includes Liberation Serif but not Freemono.
fontset-auto1 seems to be generated from fontset-liberation's primary
font without regard for its fallback fonts.
To test whether changing the fallback font in fontset-auto1 has
an effect, I restarted Emacs with `emacs -Q' and evaluated the
following expression, which modifies fontset-auto1 instead of
fontset-liberation.
(progn
;; Create a new fontset called fontset-liberation.
(create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
"-*-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-liberation")
;; Set the frame's default font to the new fontset.
(set-face-font 'default "fontset-liberation")
;; Set the frame's primary font to Liberation Mono.
(set-fontset-font "fontset-auto1" 'unicode-bmp "Liberation Mono")
;; Add a fallback to Freemono for characters that Liberation Mono lacks.
(set-fontset-font "fontset-auto1" 'unicode-bmp "Freemono:size=40"
nil 'append)
;; Return font objects for "a", an ASCII character that Liberation Mono has,
;; and "ȷ" (LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J), a character in Freemono but
;; not in Liberation Mono.
(list (font-at 0 nil "a") (font-at 0 nil "ȷ")))
This changed the font for the non-ASCII character to Freemono
and returned what I expected:
(#<font-object "-1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1">
#<font-object "-GNU -FreeMono-normal-normal-normal-*-40-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1">)
(Incidentally, evaluating the above progn without restarting Emacs
causes a core dump, but I have a smaller test case for that and I'll
make another report about it.)
It looks as if fontset-auto1 is generated by fontset_from_font
in fontset.c, but I don't understand why the specified fontset
(fontset-liberation) is not used and I haven't been able to find
anything in the manual that clarifies this behavior. I'd like
to know how to use a custom fontset for a frame's default face
(and for other faces), but if that's not supported, this may be
a documentation bug.
Information from report-emacs-bug:
In GNU Emacs 25.3.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.22.21)
of 2017-11-05 built on localhost
Windowing system distributor 'The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11905000
Configured using:
'configure --disable-dependency-tracking
--prefix=/nix/store/7px74nmmy9wnl594jsk0lcgz1ygsbwfj-emacs-25.3
--with-modules --with-x-toolkit=gtk3 --with-xft'
Configured features:
XPM JPEG TIFF GIF PNG RSVG SOUND DBUS GSETTINGS NOTIFY LIBSELINUX GNUTLS
LIBXML2 FREETYPE XFT ZLIB TOOLKIT_SCROLL_BARS GTK3 X11 MODULES
Important settings:
value of $LC_ALL: en_US.utf8
value of $LC_COLLATE: C
value of $LANG: en_US.UTF-8
value of $XMODIFIERS: @im=ibus
locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
Major mode: Lisp Interaction
Minor modes in effect:
tooltip-mode: t
global-eldoc-mode: t
electric-indent-mode: t
mouse-wheel-mode: t
tool-bar-mode: t
menu-bar-mode: t
file-name-shadow-mode: t
global-font-lock-mode: t
font-lock-mode: t
blink-cursor-mode: t
auto-composition-mode: t
auto-encryption-mode: t
auto-compression-mode: t
line-number-mode: t
transient-mark-mode: t
Recent messages:
For information about GNU Emacs and the GNU system, type C-h C-a.
Mark set
(#<font-object "-1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"> #<font-object "-GNU -FreeMono-normal-normal-normal-*-40-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1">)
Load-path shadows:
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Memory information:
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(strings 32 14566 4561)
(string-bytes 1 435478)
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bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org:bug#29631; Package emacs.
(Sun, 10 Dec 2017 17:29:01 GMT) Full text and rfc822 format available.Message #8 received at 29631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> To: Thomas Morgan <tlm <at> ziiuu.com>, Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org> Cc: 29631 <at> debbugs.gnu.org Subject: Re: bug#29631: 25.3; Unable to use custom fontset as frame default font Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 19:28:04 +0200
> From: Thomas Morgan <tlm <at> ziiuu.com> > Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 16:32:39 -0500 > > I started Emacs with `emacs -Q', entered the following expression > in *scratch*, and evaluated it with C-M-x: > > (progn > ;; Create a new fontset called fontset-liberation. > (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec > "-*-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-liberation") > > ;; Set its primary font to Liberation Mono. > (set-fontset-font "fontset-liberation" 'unicode-bmp "Liberation Mono") > > ;; Add a fallback to Freemono for characters that Liberation Mono lacks. > (set-fontset-font "fontset-liberation" 'unicode-bmp "Freemono:size=40" > nil 'append) > > ;; Set the frame's default font to the new fontset. > > (set-face-font 'default "fontset-liberation") > > ;; Return font objects for "a", an ASCII character that Liberation Mono has, > ;; and "ȷ" (LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J), a character in Freemono but > ;; not in Liberation Mono. > (list (font-at 0 nil "a") (font-at 0 nil "ȷ"))) > > The result was this: > > (#<font-object "-1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"> > #<font-object "-1ASC-Liberation Serif-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1">) > > The font for ASCII character "a" was Liberation Mono as expected, but > I expected the second font to be Freemono and it was Liberation Serif. > > I checked which fontset is being used as default: > > (face-attribute 'default :fontset) > > It's fontset-auto1, not fontset-liberation: > > "-1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1" > > I typed `M-x describe-fontset RET fontset-auto1 RET'. > > Fontset: -1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-auto1 > CHAR RANGE (CODE RANGE) > FONT NAME (REQUESTED and [OPENED]) > C-@ .. (#x43 .. #x9F) > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > .. ɏ (#xA0 .. #x24F) > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > [-1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1] > [-1ASC-Liberation Serif-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1] > ɐ .. [#x3FFF7F] (#x250 .. #x3FFF7F) > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > [\200] .. [\377] (#x3FFF80 .. #x3FFFFF) > -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-iso10646-1 > > ---<fallback to the default fontset>--- > [...] > > (Non-UTF8 characters are replaced with representations in brackets.) > > So fontset-auto1 includes Liberation Serif but not Freemono. > fontset-auto1 seems to be generated from fontset-liberation's primary > font without regard for its fallback fonts. > > To test whether changing the fallback font in fontset-auto1 has > an effect, I restarted Emacs with `emacs -Q' and evaluated the > following expression, which modifies fontset-auto1 instead of > fontset-liberation. > > (progn > ;; Create a new fontset called fontset-liberation. > (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec > "-*-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-*-*-*-*-m-0-fontset-liberation") > > ;; Set the frame's default font to the new fontset. > (set-face-font 'default "fontset-liberation") > > ;; Set the frame's primary font to Liberation Mono. > (set-fontset-font "fontset-auto1" 'unicode-bmp "Liberation Mono") > > ;; Add a fallback to Freemono for characters that Liberation Mono lacks. > (set-fontset-font "fontset-auto1" 'unicode-bmp "Freemono:size=40" > nil 'append) > > ;; Return font objects for "a", an ASCII character that Liberation Mono has, > ;; and "ȷ" (LATIN SMALL LETTER DOTLESS J), a character in Freemono but > ;; not in Liberation Mono. > (list (font-at 0 nil "a") (font-at 0 nil "ȷ"))) > > This changed the font for the non-ASCII character to Freemono > and returned what I expected: > > (#<font-object "-1ASC-Liberation Mono-normal-normal-normal-*-15-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1"> > #<font-object "-GNU -FreeMono-normal-normal-normal-*-40-*-*-*-m-0-iso10646-1">) > > (Incidentally, evaluating the above progn without restarting Emacs > causes a core dump, but I have a smaller test case for that and I'll > make another report about it.) > > It looks as if fontset-auto1 is generated by fontset_from_font > in fontset.c, but I don't understand why the specified fontset > (fontset-liberation) is not used and I haven't been able to find > anything in the manual that clarifies this behavior. I'd like > to know how to use a custom fontset for a frame's default face > (and for other faces), but if that's not supported, this may be > a documentation bug. CC'ing Handa-san in the hope that he could provide some insights.
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