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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
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Subject: Re: Suggestion and general remarks regarding faces.
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>>>>> "Bill" == William M Perry <wmperry@aventail.com> writes:

Bill>   One thing that I think should be in the next feature-ful XEmacs release
Bill> (as opposed to just bug-fixing) is a new font-model.  I've talked to chuck
Bill> and ben and RMS a little about this, and have a POC version worked up in
Bill> Elisp (font.el in the w3 distributions).

I agree that the current font model (and the font-related entries in
the Options menu) are basically broken.  In XEmacs' case it's
complicated by having multiple fonts for different character sets.
Nevertheless, I am sure that somebody on the Net has already done this
right, and we need to incorporate/translate their code into the
appropriate lispy thing.

Martin

