Re: Ping! Re: `font-spec` unable to retrieve :name of font

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On 24 Oct 2015, Drew Adams said:

>> after all, the XLFD variant is never going to be displayed to the user,
>> nor passed to Fontconfig: it's just an internal thing for parts of
>> Emacs expecting XLFDs.
>
> Just a comment on this part of what you wrote.
>
> XLFD format _is_ visible to users.  And it can be used by them.
>
> I use it, for example, to transform a font to another of a
> different size, resulting also in a frame of a different size.
> This use case is quite important to my use of Emacs, FWIW.

In that case we need an escaping mechanism even more :) it just needs to
gain an additional requirement: not to be pig ugly.

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