From: Sebastian Wiesner <swiesner@lunaryorn.com>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 18077@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18077: 24.4.50; Info-quoted face should inherit default
Date: Sat, 26 Jul 2014 10:58:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1D8FB3F1-0916-4C33-8C9D-A9C91774682D@lunaryorn.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvlhrg5z7u.fsf-monnier+emacsbugs@gnu.org>
>>> The whole purpose of this is to make quoted text appear different, so we
>>> don't want to use the default face.
>> A different style or color would not be sufficient?
>
> To me "courier" is a different style.
>
> Making it bold or italic or colored would not really match my
> expectations as a reader of such documentation.
What expectations?
With respect, Info didn’t use different face for quoted text for ages. Did the expectations of the readers change all of a sudden?
And if it’s just *your* expectation and your preference, doesn’t it belong into your personal "init.el" then?
>> With respect, I mean no offense, but did you actually look at the
>> screenshots that I attached to my previous mail?
>
> No, I didn't notice them, and they don't appear very well in my tty
> connection ;-)
Oh, well, they are of quite some importance, since they happen to demonstrate what this is all about: That courier is not consistently of good quality, and can be a very poor font on some systems.
> Have you looked at whether or not face-font-family-alternatives would
> provide a good fix?
I’m not sure whether I can follow. I mean, I could add an arbitrary “good” font as alias for "courier" myself, but then I could just customize the "Info-quoted" face right away (which is what I’m doing currently).
And if the system can’t provide proper courier font or alias, how could Emacs do any better?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-26 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-22 8:15 bug#18077: 24.4.50; Info-quoted face should inherit default swiesner
2014-07-25 8:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-25 10:25 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-07-25 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-25 14:03 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-07-27 23:30 ` Juri Linkov
2014-07-28 8:12 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-04-03 23:58 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-04-04 7:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-25 22:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-25 22:55 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-07-26 8:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-26 8:58 ` Sebastian Wiesner [this message]
2014-07-27 10:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-27 20:04 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-07-27 23:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-07-28 8:33 ` Sebastian Wiesner
2014-07-26 7:47 ` Andreas Schwab
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