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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen writes:
> Jens Lautenbacher <jtl@tkm.physik.uni-karlsruhe.de> writes:
> 
> > I am currently thinking of some kind of face-server which could have
> > .e.g the following calling syntax
> > 
> > (face-server-make-extent BEGIN END &rest KEYWORD VALUE)
> > 
> > This call would inspect all extents in the newly to generate extent
> > from BEGIN to END, would look at all faces defined in these extents
> > and changes them according to KEYWORDS witch could be 'family 'bold
> > 'italic, 'bold-italic 'foreground 'background 'underline and 'size
> 
> That sounds very useful, and would definitely solve lots of problems.

  I've written a fair bit of this for Emacs-w3's stylesheet implementation,
and am probably going to put it in the C code eventually, just have to find
the time and expertise.  Check out font.el in the Emacs-W3 distribution.
It handles this fairly well on X and TTY (under XEmacs, etc)

-Bill P.