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(Faces): More updates for faces on character terminals.

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Richard M. Stallman 2002-01-12 03:56:19 +00:00
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@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 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.
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.
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