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

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From: Gregory Heytings <gregory <at> heytings.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: rudalics <at> gmx.at, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 52493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>, rpluim <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#52493: 29.0.50; Setting Inconsolata up in init.el makes
 default face rendered wrong
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2022 15:20:59 +0000

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>> I did not design that function, that's how it works.  But given how 
>> intricate the face machinery is, I'm not sure it's possible to do much 
>> better.
>
> It does feel a little odd, though. Could you explain why :family does 
> get evaluated first, but :font does not?
>

I can't explain that, no.  If you look at bug#1127, you'll see that moving 
the evaluation of :family and :foundry before other attributes was (in 
2008) perceived as a workaround.  Apparently that worked well enough, and 
it's still there in its original form.

IMO it would make sense to move the evaluation of the :font attribute 
before other attributes, for the same reason.

Eli, what do you think of the attached patch?

>
> And yet, it's better recommended to use :font?
>

Again, that's why I'd recommend, but it's not the officially recommended 
way of doing things (if such a thing exists).

[Evaluate-font-attribute-earlier-in-set-face-attribut.patch (text/x-diff, attachment)]

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