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29.0.50; Setting Inconsolata up in init.el makes default face rendered wrong

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, larsi <at> gnus.org, 52493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com, dgutov <at> yandex.ru
Subject: bug#52493: 29.0.50; Setting Inconsolata up in init.el makes default face rendered wrong
Date: Mon, 26 Dec 2022 14:20:25 +0200

> Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 22:42:40 +0000
> From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
> cc: dgutov <at> yandex.ru, larsi <at> gnus.org, rudalics <at> gmx.at, rpluim <at> gmail.com, 
>     52493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > What is the significance of using :font instead of :family in these 
> > cases, for the purpose of discussing and investigating this issue?
> >
> 
> The two reasons are:
> 
> 1. IME passing an font name in the :font attribute gives in general better 
> results than passing a font name in the :family attribute.  (And Dmitry 
> confirmed that the problem he was facing was mostly solved with that 
> change.)

It is strange, because if the family is simply the name of the font,
it should be interpreted the same, because what else could family mean
in that case?

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