Subject: Re: bug#53866: face-attribute giving bold for ultra-bold attribute

From: goncholden <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2022 17:00:38 +0000

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On Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 at 8:26 AM, Stephen Berman <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Tue, 08 Feb 2022 06:56:12 +0000 goncholden via "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" [email-masked] wrote:
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> >
> > On Tuesday, February 8th, 2022 at 6:42 AM, Lars Ingebrigtsen [email-masked] wrote:
> >
> > > goncholden [email-masked] writes:
> >
> > Is there an easy way to find a font supporting some weight attribute. Currently,
> >
> > it is quite difficult to know what font one can use.
> >
> > > `C-u C-x =' will tell you what font you're using.
> >
> > I just get "point=146 of 145 (EOB) column=0"
>
> Point has to "see" a character for that command to give information
>
> about it, so execute it with point not at the end of the buffer
>
> (including an empty buffer).
>
> Steve Berman

It is very confusing.  I loaded a random elisp file and run the command in the middle of the buffer
to get

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Type C-x 1 to delete the help window, C-M-v to scroll help.
Char: C-j (10, #o12, #xa) point=11866 of 22678 (52%) column=0
End of buffer

             position: 11866 of 22678 (52%), column: 0
            character: C-j (displayed as C-j) (codepoint 10, #o12, #xa)
              charset: ascii (ASCII (ISO646 IRV))
code point in charset: 0x0A
               script: latin
               syntax: > 	which means: endcomment
             to input: type "C-x 8 RET a" or "C-x 8 RET LINE FEED (LF)"
          buffer code: #x0A
            file code: #x0A (encoded by coding system prefer-utf-8-unix)
              display: no font available

Character code properties: customize what to show
  old-name: LINE FEED (LF)
  general-category: Cc (Other, Control)

There are text properties here:
  fontified            nil