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bug#70055: 30.0.50; Column uniformity when using vtable with a variable-
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Adam Porter |
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bug#70055: 30.0.50; Column uniformity when using vtable with a variable-pitch font |
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Sat, 6 Apr 2024 20:22:11 -0500 |
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Hi Eli, John,
On 4/6/24 04:24, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
You use face-remap-add-relative, but you also use absolute height
values for the fonts. I don't think face-remapping will work in
these situations, because for it to work the font heights must be
defined in relative terms, not absolute terms.
Adam, am I missing something here? Is this specific to vtable?
I'm not sure what's going on. As best I can tell, either this example
code doesn't do what's intended, or I misunderstand what's intended.
I am confused because the "with-variable-font" frame, in the screenshot
and in my own testing, causes the vtable's text to be displayed without
a variable-pitch font, not with one. Maybe that is what is intended, in
which case I don't know what the problem is.
But in that case, it might be easier to achieve the desired effect by
adjusting the `vtable' face, which inherits from `variable-pitch'...
...and that might point to the problem: `(elisp)Face Remapping' says:
Note that buffer-local face remapping does not work reliably for
parent faces of basic faces (*note Basic Faces::). (These are the
faces that are used in mode lines, header lines, and other basic
decorations of windows and frames.) For instance,
‘mode-line-inactive’ inherits from ‘mode-line’, but remapping
‘mode-line’ won’t normally have the desired effect on
‘mode-line-inactive’, especially if done locally for some buffers.
Instead you have to remap ‘mode-line-inactive’ directly.
Since the `vtable' face inherits from `variable-pitch', maybe remapping
`variable-pitch' isn't working as intended. But I have little knowledge
about face remapping, and, e.g. the limitation Eli mentions about font
heights being defined in relative terms--I can't find that mentioned in
the manual--so I'm likely not the best person to ask.
Note also that the call to `face-remap-add-relative' does not appear to
be according to the expected signature; it's unclear to me what effect
that call is actually having. When I adjust it to, e.g.
(face-remap-add-relative 'vtable :font "Arial" :weight 'thin
:height 1.2)
It appears to have a different effect.
Finally, I don't have the specific fonts used in the example, making it
hard to reproduce.
Anyway, I hope this helps somehow.
Thanks,
Adam