From 306da12ebe2bb259894e704df7c28055b2648bed Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Richard M. Stallman" Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2002 03:56:19 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] (Faces): More updates for faces on character terminals. --- man/display.texi | 22 ++++++++++++---------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/man/display.texi b/man/display.texi index 97d3fd15c8..c1a7230543 100644 --- a/man/display.texi +++ b/man/display.texi @@ -30,16 +30,18 @@ display it. @section Using Multiple Typefaces @cindex faces - When using Emacs with a window system, you can set up multiple -styles of displaying characters. Each style is called a @dfn{face}. -Each face can specify various attributes, such as the height, weight -and slant of the characters, the foreground and background color, and -underlining. But it does not have to specify all of them. - - Emacs on a character terminal supports only part of face attributes. -Which attributes are supported depends on your display type, but many -displays support inverse video, bold, and underline attributes, and -some support colors. + Emacs supports using multiple styles of displaying characters. Each +style is called a @dfn{face}. Each face can specify various @dfn{face +attributes}, such as the font family, the height, weight and slant of +the characters, the foreground and background color, and underlining +or overlining. A face does not have to specify all of these +attributes; often it inherits many of them from another face. + + On a window system, all the Emacs face attributes are meaningful. +On a character terminal, only some of them work. Some character +terminals support inverse video, bold, and underline attributes; some +support colors. Character terminals generally do not support changing +the height and width or the font family. Features which rely on text in multiple faces (such as Font Lock mode) will also work on non-windowed terminals that can display more than one -- 2.39.2