From: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 05:58:27 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Add description of new :inherit face attribute, and additional legal
X-Git-Tag: emacs-pretest-21.0.90~1964
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=787345ff6f8a0eb037d178d2b6a67488345cc445;p=emacs.git

Add description of new :inherit face attribute, and additional legal
values for the :height attribute.
---

diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS
index 51564b28126..60d37eed722 100644
--- a/etc/NEWS
+++ b/etc/NEWS
@@ -2587,8 +2587,10 @@ It must be one of the symbols `ultra-condensed', `extra-condensed',
 
 `:height'
 
-VALUE must be an integer specifying the height of the font to use in
-1/10 pt.
+VALUE must be either an integer specifying the height of the font to use
+in 1/10 pt, a floating point number specifying the amount by which to
+scale any underlying face, or a function, which is called with the old
+height (from the underlying face), and should return the new height.
 
 `:weight'
 
@@ -2678,6 +2680,12 @@ must be t or nil in that case.  A value of `unspecified' is not allowed."
 Please see also the documentation of `set-face-attribute' and
 `defface'.
 
+`:inherit'
+
+VALUE is the name of a face from which to inherit attributes, or a list
+of face names.  Attributes from inherited faces are merged into the face
+like an underlying face would be, with higher priority than underlying faces.
+
 *** Face attributes and X resources
 
 The following X resource names can be used to set face attributes