[Bug: 21.5-b28] w3 fails on font-spatial-to-canonical

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an séiú lá de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: 

 > Aidan Kehoe writes:
 > 
 >  > XLFDs (and X server-side fonts in general) are old and broken (in terms of
 >  > size, scalable-or-not, repertoire and other reasons).
 > 
 > So what?  Many users have them in various configuration files, and
 > they work for those users. 

Do they work for them with XFT? They don’t for me: 

  $ xrdb -query| grep attribute
  XEmacs.default.attributeBackground:     White
  XEmacs.bold-italic.attributeForeground: gold
  XEmacs.bold.attributeForeground:        IndianRed
  XEmacs.italic.attributeForeground:      red3
  XEmacs.modeline.attributeFont:  -*-verdana-medium-r-normal--11-*-75-75-p-*-iso8859-1
  XEmacs.default.attributeFont:   -*-andale mono-medium-r-*-*-*-85-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1
  XEmacs.default.attributeFace:   -*-andale mono-medium-r-*-*-*-85-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1
  XEmacs.italic.attributeFont:    -*-andale mono-medium-r-*-*-*-85-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1
  XEmacs.bold.attributeFont:      -*-andale mono-medium-r-*-*-*-85-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1
  XEmacs.bold-italic.attributeFont:       -*-andale mono-medium-r-*-*-*-85-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1
  $ 

  (face-font 'default)
  => #<font-specifier global=((x x-resource) . "-*-andale mono-medium-r-*-*-*-85-100-100-*-*-iso8859-1") fallback=(((tty) . "normal") ((x) . "Monospace-12") ((x) . "Sazanami Mincho-12")) 0x1f7e>
  
  (face-font-instance 'default nil 'ascii)
  => #<font-instance "Verdana-12:style=Regular:slant=0:weight=100:pixelsize=12.5:outline=True:scalable=True:dpi=75:rgba=1" on #<x-device on ":0.0" 0x26701> xft font: 0x229ca00 0x2b068>

  $ fc-list | grep '^And'
  Andale Mono:style=Regular
  $ 

That is, neither the size nor the font chosen appears to have anything to do
with the font specified in the X resource.

 > Deprecate them, yes, but I see no reason to simply break them.

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