GNU bug report logs - #32210
Support medium weighted fonts

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Carlos Pita <carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com>

Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2018 14:07:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Merged with 28351, 51155

Found in versions 26.0.50, 29.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #37 received at 32210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
Cc: carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com, 32210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#32210: Support medium weighted fonts
Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 19:26:49 +0200

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
> Cc: carlosjosepita <at> gmail.com,  32210 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2019 18:17:27 +0100
> 
> So we have a whole a whole bunch of bugs here, apparently.

I'm not surprised.  Just look at the different conversions of weight
symbols into numbers, and you will see the mess.  For example,
font_parse_fcname obviously supports only a subset of weight values,
so it's enough to convert a value back and forth to get a mismatch, at
least in principle.
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