GNU bug report logs - #59347
29.0.50; `:family` face setting ignored

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
Cc: gregory <at> heytings.org, monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca, 59347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#59347: 29.0.50; `:family` face setting ignored
Date: Thu, 08 Dec 2022 19:44:51 +0200

> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>
> CC: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>,
>         "59347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org"
> 	<59347 <at> debbugs.gnu.org>
> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2022 17:29:26 +0000
> 
> Does some of the "problem" figuring out what to
> do here perhaps come from the (misguided?)
> decision to name some faces (basic/common ones,
> no less) after particular face/font attributes,
> such as "bold"?

No, that's completely unrelated.

> Nevertheless, isn't this perhaps at the root of
> the problem - trying to decide how to deal with
> a face whose name shouts "bold" or "fixed pitch"?

fixed-pitch is not a face attribute, so there's no problem whatsoever
to have a face by that name (assuming its font is specified
accordingly).

> Do we really need/want to have _any_ such faces?

It's convenient, because such a name speaks about itself.

In addition, popular font-handling systems that Emacs supports have
such broad "families" of fonts defined, whether we want that or not.
For example, "Monospace".

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