>> I'm not against the introduction of a new font specification style,
>> but I think it is mainly for developers and power-users. Emacs
>> already has a mechanism that enables users to specify fonts in a
>> simpler way at the face level.
> 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.
This has nothing to do with power users. It's simply that until Emacs-21,
XLFD was the standard way to specify fonts in Emacs, and that until recently
XLFD was the standard way to specify fonts in other X11 apps as well.
That's a lot of historical baggage. Creating yet another syntax will not
reduce this baggage by one bit.
The fact is that there is a new syntax and people do use it, tho a lot of
people still use the old one.
> In addition, I've been integrating the Cocoa port's font handling with
> xfaces.c, and can say it's onerous for developers.
Yes, this part probably needs to be redesigned for Cocoa/OpenStep/xft/w32,
but it has nothing to do with the user-level interface. The internal
interface should simply not use a syntax but data structures instead.
Stefan
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