Re: face-variable-width-p?

[David Reitter]

On Feb 17, 5:09 pm, Kevin Rodgers <kevin.d.rodg...@gmail.com> wrote:

> So perhaps there's
> a bug in xlfd-tight-regexp that can be worked around:
>
> (let ((font (frame-parameter (selected-frame) 'font)))
>    (string-match xlfd-tight-regexp font)
>    (match-string (1+ xlfd-regexp-spacing-subnum) font))
>
> A variable-width font (aka proportional pitch) should return "p"
> -- see section 3.1.2.10 (SPACING Field) 
> inhttp://ftp.xfree.org/pub/XFree86/4.5.0/doc/xlfd.txt

Nice idea for a hack, but it doesn't work for me.
This returns "m" no matter what.

Some examples on my machine:

"-apple-times new roman-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-m-120-
iso10646-1"
"-apple-lucida grande-medium-r-normal--14-140-72-72-m-140-iso10646-1"
"-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--12-120-72-72-m-120-iso10646-1"

I can't see any indication of mono/variable width here.