You're right.. But the population of "power users" in this case for
whatever reason seems fairly large (just subjective impression), and
the requirement to learn XLFD (to compose a fontset, or whatever
else) and partake of the pleasures of asterisk-counting seems onerous.
Is there a suitable font specification syntax in some other app that
we could imitate? I don't think it is worth while for us to develop a
new one, and if it were unique to Emacs, it probably would not be very
useful.
XLFD should be removed from non-window-system-specific code and
replaced with a simple struct containing the same information.
That is not a user interface proposal. That is a proposal for a
simplification of internals of Emacs. Maybe that would be a
simplification, maybe not. In either case, I would rather we NOT
change this now.
But it has nothing to do with the idea of presenting a different
_syntax_ for specifying a font, so I think it is just a distraction
from the issue we were talking about.
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