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authorChong Yidong <[email protected]>2009-05-12 03:31:58 +0000
committerChong Yidong <[email protected]>2009-05-12 03:31:58 +0000
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tree55b7deadea1469330e5fd8401e127356d8e1a6ba /doc/lispref/frames.texi
parent01d2a3f93c8d0a5cdd17916e0116578d18451796 (diff)
* 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.
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diff --git a/doc/lispref/frames.texi b/doc/lispref/frames.texi
index 2805216557..a2b1431693 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/frames.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/frames.texi
@@ -477,7 +477,7 @@ terminal frames.
* 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 @@ modificatoin of the usual cursor type (solid box becomes hollow box,
and bar becomes a narrower bar).
@end defvar
-@node Color Parameters
-@subsubsection Color Parameters
+@node Font and Color Parameters
+@subsubsection Font and Color Parameters
- These frame parameters control the use of colors.
+ 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 @@ is over mouse-sensitive text.
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