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Support medium weighted fonts

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com, 32210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#32210: Support medium weighted fonts
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 11:41:42 +0100

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

> So I don't think I have a proper font to experiment with...  does
> anybody know of a font in Debian Stable that has both varieties?
> SauceCodePro was the example in the bug report, but that does not seem
> to be available here.

Found one -- "apt install ubuntu-font".

I chose "Ubuntu Regular" and "Ubuntu Medium":

Weight: 400, symbol normal
Weight: 500, symbol semi-bold

And: Added wrinkle: In Emacs, the "Regular" font is heavier than the
"Medium" font (but they're not in the Gtk selector).

This is all very confusing.

If I say

emacs -Q -fn "Ubuntu:weight=regular" 
emacs -Q -fn "Ubuntu:weight=medium" 

I get the more expected result (i.e., identical display in Emacs since
we map both of these to the same thing in other parts of Emacs).

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