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49.1.1 Merging Faces for Display

Here are all the ways to specify which face to use for display of text:

If these various sources together specify more than one face for a particular character, SXEmacs merges the properties of the various faces specified. Extents, text properties, and annotations all use the same underlying representation (as extents). When multiple extents cover one character, an extent with higher priority overrides those with lower priority. See Extents. If no extent covers a particular character, the default face is used.

If a background pixmap is specified, it determines what will be displayed in the background of text characters. If the background pixmap is actually a pixmap, with its colors specified, those colors are used; if it is a bitmap, the face’s foreground and background colors are used to color it.


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