(menu-set-font): Fix last fix.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/menu-bar.el b/lisp/menu-bar.el
index 043e0120fc9..5b3b5674f3e 100644
--- a/lisp/menu-bar.el
+++ b/lisp/menu-bar.el
@@ -637,16 +637,14 @@ by \"Save Options\" in Custom buffers.")
                 (mouse-select-font)))
         spec)
     (when font
-      ;; We used to call set-face-attribute with a nil argument here,
-      ;; but this does the wrong thing (Bug#2476).  The reason is
-      ;; subtle: when Emacs looks for a font matching the `font'
-      ;; argument, it tries to guess the best matching font by
-      ;; examining the other face attributes.  The attributes for
-      ;; future frames are generally unspecified, so this matching
-      ;; process works poorly.  What we do instead is assign `font' to
-      ;; the selected frame, then use that font object and assign it
-      ;; to all other frames (and to future frames).
-      (set-face-attribute 'default (selected-frame) :font font)
+      ;; Be careful here: when set-face-attribute is called for the
+      ;; :font attribute, Emacs tries to guess the best matching font
+      ;; by examining the other face attributes (Bug#2476).
+      (set-face-attribute 'default (selected-frame)
+                          :width 'normal
+                          :weight 'normal
+                          :slant 'normal
+                          :font font)
       (let ((font-object (face-attribute 'default :font)))
         (dolist (f (frame-list))
           (and (not (eq f (selected-frame)))