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25.3; menubar font broken with fontconfig-2.13.0 (with Lucid toolkit)

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Message #5 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: 25.3; menubar font broken with fontconfig-2.13.0 (with Lucid toolkit)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:53:01 +0100

I have the following lines in my ~/.Xresources:

   Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Droid Sans-10:bold
   Emacs.pane.menubar.background: maroon
   Emacs.pane.menubar.foreground: ivory

So I would expect the menubar font to be bold (which worked as
expected with fontconfig-2.12.6).

However, with fontconfig-2.13.0, the font appears in medium weight.
Other attributes, like the typeface itself or the size seem to work
correctly.

See the downstream bug at https://bugs.gentoo.org/650370
for screenshots with fontconfig-2.12.6 and fontconfig-2.13.0.


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Message #8 received at 30793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
Cc: 30793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30793: 25.3;
 menubar font broken with fontconfig-2.13.0 (with Lucid toolkit)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 18:55:19 +0200

> Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:53:01 +0100
> From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
> 
> I have the following lines in my ~/.Xresources:
> 
>    Emacs.pane.menubar.font: Droid Sans-10:bold
>    Emacs.pane.menubar.background: maroon
>    Emacs.pane.menubar.foreground: ivory
> 
> So I would expect the menubar font to be bold (which worked as
> expected with fontconfig-2.12.6).
> 
> However, with fontconfig-2.13.0, the font appears in medium weight.
> Other attributes, like the typeface itself or the size seem to work
> correctly.

Isn't this entirely between X and fontconfig?  I mean, what's Emacs's
part in this?

Was this reported to the fontconfig developers?

Thanks.

Message #11 received at 30793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Ulrich Mueller <ulm <at> gentoo.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 30793 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#30793: 25.3;
 menubar font broken with fontconfig-2.13.0 (with Lucid toolkit)
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 22:04:21 +0100

>>>>> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Isn't this entirely between X and fontconfig?  I mean, what's Emacs's
> part in this?

Indeed, it is entirely a fontconfig problem:

> $ fc-match 'Droid Sans-10:bold'   # with fontconfig-2.12.6
> DroidSans-Bold.ttf: "Droid Sans" "Bold"

> $ fc-match 'Droid Sans-10:bold'   # with fontconfig-2.13.0
> DroidSans.ttf: "Droid Sans" "Regular"

> Was this reported to the fontconfig developers?

It was: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=105415

Sorry for the noise.

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