Re: observations for ns*.m files (Re: Emacs.app merged)

[Jason Rumney]

Dan Nicolaescu wrote:
> Adrian Robert <address@hidden> writes:

>   > I'm not sure if there is a generic facility.  On X, font size is part of 
> the
>   > XLFD strings.  These are not used except where absolutely necessary on 
> NS, and
>   > I would like to get rid of these cases.
> 
> At least talk to the Windows people because they probably have the same
> problem.  This is something very basic, it would be a pity to have
> different solutions for different platform.

Emacs 23 accepts 3 different formats for specifying fonts. In addition
to XLFD, there are the fontconfig ("Monaco-10", "Monaco-10:bold"...) and
GTK ("Monaco 10", "Monaco Bold 10") formats. If the point size is left
out, a default of I think 12 is assumed.