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diff doc/lispref/frames.texi @ 103206:a3671220e5f4
* frames.texi (Font and Color Parameters): Rename from Color
Parameters. Document font-backend parameter.
* vol2.texi (Top): Update node listing.
* vol1.texi (Top): Update node listing.
* elisp.texi (Top): Update node listing.
| author | Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> |
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| date | Tue, 12 May 2009 03:31:58 +0000 |
| parents | cfd0f4bd9e6e |
| children | 8d1eae3ec9a6 |
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--- a/doc/lispref/frames.texi Tue May 12 03:19:05 2009 +0000 +++ b/doc/lispref/frames.texi Tue May 12 03:31:58 2009 +0000 @@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ * Buffer Parameters:: Which buffers have been or should be shown. * Management Parameters:: Communicating with the window manager. * Cursor Parameters:: Controlling the cursor appearance. -* Color Parameters:: Colors of various parts of the frame. +* Font and Color Parameters:: Fonts and colors for the frame text. @end menu @node Basic Parameters @@ -812,12 +812,20 @@ and bar becomes a narrower bar). @end defvar -@node Color Parameters -@subsubsection Color Parameters - - These frame parameters control the use of colors. +@node Font and Color Parameters +@subsubsection Font and Color Parameters + + These frame parameters control the use of fonts and colors. @table @code +@item font-backend +A list of symbols, specifying the @dfn{font backends} to use for +drawing fonts in the frame, in order of priority. On X, there are +currently two available font backends: @code{x} (the X core font +driver) and @code{xft} (the Xft font driver). On other systems, there +is only one available font backend, so it does not make sense to +modify this frame parameter. + @item background-mode This parameter is either @code{dark} or @code{light}, according to whether the background color is a light one or a dark one. @@ -1844,7 +1852,7 @@ These variables affect newly created frames. They do not normally affect existing frames; however, if you set the mouse color of a frame, that also installs the current value of those two variables. -@xref{Color Parameters}. +@xref{Font and Color Parameters}. The values you can use, to specify either of these pointer shapes, are defined in the file @file{lisp/term/x-win.el}. Use @kbd{M-x apropos
