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29.1; fonts use synthetic bold on Linux / pgtk

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Message #53 received at 67810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Tim Ruffing <crypto <at> timruffing.de>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefankangas <at> gmail.com>, Po Lu <luangruo <at> yahoo.com>, Eli
 Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 67810 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#67810: 29.1; fonts use synthetic bold on Linux / pgtk
Date: Thu, 11 Jan 2024 16:50:34 +0100

On Thu, 2023-12-14 at 14:55 -0800, Stefan Kangas wrote:
> 
> They should use .svg files, I think.  See the branch scratch/icons
> for
> the basic approach.

Yeah, that's a very clean approach, of course, but it's restricted to
graphical displays. And consideration went into the current design
described in 
https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/elisp/Icons.html
which says "Icons should also have a textual fallback." and which has
an example with "textual" symbols. 

@Po Lu:
Independent of icons, I still think that overstriking is a bit
unexpected. (I mean, even Eli didn't know about it.) I see that a font
regex is too much, but do you think a simple boolean option would be a
good idea? Or do you think the current behavior should simply be
documented more prominently?

Tim

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