Re: Pixel-based display functions

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden>
> Cc: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>,
>     address@hidden,
>     address@hidden
> Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 23:55:59 +0900
> 
> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> 
>  > Do people actually do such things?  If so, in what circumstances?
> 
> Boldface and italic come immediately to mind. ;-)

That's not a problem, since there will be a face property there.

> Among math symbols people may prefer different versions of some of
> them (cf TeX's \varphi, for example).

Not sure I understand the situation you describe here.

> Large character sets like Han (you may specify Japanese fonts
> because your audience is Japanese, but if your text contains Chinese
> names for example, you may need to borrow characters from a Chinese
> font).

I get quite a few spam mail with Japanese and Chinese characters in
them, but the former are always Kana, while the latter are Han.