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30  @section Using Multiple Typefaces  @section Using Multiple Typefaces
31  @cindex faces  @cindex faces
32    
33    When using Emacs with a window system, you can set up multiple    Emacs supports using multiple styles of displaying characters.  Each
34  styles of displaying characters.  Each style is called a @dfn{face}.  style is called a @dfn{face}.  Each face can specify various @dfn{face
35  Each face can specify various attributes, such as the height, weight  attributes}, such as the font family, the height, weight and slant of
36  and slant of the characters, the foreground and background color, and  the characters, the foreground and background color, and underlining
37  underlining.  But it does not have to specify all of them.  or overlining.  A face does not have to specify all of these
38    attributes; often it inherits many of them from another face.
39    
40    Emacs on a character terminal supports only part of face attributes.    On a window system, all the Emacs face attributes are meaningful.
41  Which attributes are supported depends on your display type, but many  On a character terminal, only some of them work.  Some character
42  displays support inverse video, bold, and underline attributes, and  terminals support inverse video, bold, and underline attributes; some
43  some support colors.  support colors.  Character terminals generally do not support changing
44    the height and width or the font family.
45    
46    Features which rely on text in multiple faces (such as Font Lock mode)    Features which rely on text in multiple faces (such as Font Lock mode)
47  will also work on non-windowed terminals that can display more than one  will also work on non-windowed terminals that can display more than one

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