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

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Message #80 received at 52493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 52493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
Subject: Re: bug#52493: 29.0.50; Setting Inconsolata up in init.el makes
 default face rendered wrong
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 16:42:04 +0200

> Cc: larsi <at> gnus.org, 52493 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rpluim <at> gmail.com
> From: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2021 17:06:05 +0300
> 
> >> But when I specify :weight 'medium, shouldn't it request medium then?
> > 
> > You didn't just specify medium, you specified both the family and the
> > weight.  The implementation does it one attribute at a time (because
> > doing it together triggered other bugs), so at first Emacs attempts to
> > find a font with that family and the default weight.  And without the
> > kludge in font.c, that font is rejected because it doesn't have
> > regular weight.
> 
> Feels counter-intuitive, but all right.

The comments in the code point to bug#1127.  Maybe that problem no
longer exists, and we could avoid doing that?

> I've tested the latest master, and that problem is fixed. Thanks!

Thanks for testing.

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