> > Oh, I see what you mean. Is that the only consideration: the fact > > that a variant (bold or whatever) of the frame font is expected to > > be able to be used, when you define the default font of a frame? > > Like I suspected, the real problem here was that the font name ended > in "-8", which Emacs interpreted as a size. > > I fixed this in the development sources. The original > custom-set-faces form still doesn't select this font, but this does: > (set-frame-font "Topaz-8")
So it was essentially a bug in this case. Thanks for fixing it.