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29.0.50; variable-pitch font issue with medium weight default font

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Message #56 received at 57555 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 57555 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, gregory <at> heytings.org, bandali <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#57555: 29.0.50; variable-pitch font issue with medium
 weight default font
Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2022 14:44:01 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> As far as I can tell, your patch just reverted the code back to the
>> state before this:
>> 
>> commit bf0d3f76dcfe7881cb3058169b51cf6602fdcdcb
>> Author:     Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>
>> AuthorDate: Sun Jul 20 00:18:23 2014 +0900
>> 
>>     2014-07-19  Kenichi Handa  <handa <at> gnu.org>
>>     
>>             * xfaces.c (realize_x_face): Call font_load_for_lface with no
>>             mandatory font spec (Bug#17973).
>>     
>>     2014-07-19  Stefan Monnier  <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
>>     
>>             * font.c (font_score): Return the worst score if the size of
>>             ENTITY is wrong by more than a factor 2 (Bug#17973).
>
> Yes.  As I explained back then.
>
>> So we've come full circle.
>
> No, we haven't.

In what way isn't that "full circle"?

> Emacs works as expected: it requests a medium-weight
> font for the variable-pitch face, because the fixed-pitch face was
> customized to use a medium weight.  Since the font Amin wants to use
> for variable-pitch doesn't have a medium variant, Emacs selects
> another one.  There's no real problem I see here, except an issue with
> user expectations not being satisfied.

I think that the vast majority of users would want Emacs to choose a
different weight, but use the same font, which is what we had before we
went full circle.

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