Re: [PATCH] Use fontconfig spec for parsing font-weight.

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yukio Siraichi <sir.yukio@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 17 May 2021 13:37:31 +0900
> 
> This patch addresses one of the differences between 'fontconfig' 
> font-weight table, and the one inside emacs. Basically, the problem was 
> that emacs wasn't listing fonts whose weight=55. However, those are 
> defined to be 'semilight' in the fontconfig specification (see link below).
> 
> Reproducing this problem only requires the existence of fonts whose 
> weight=55 (one can use fc-cat for that). It's possible to observe that 
> such fonts are not found in 'x-list-fonts' or when running 'describe-font'.

Thanks, but why is it important for these fonts to appear in those
lists?  What is the practical advantage of that for Emacs users?