From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Sebastian Wiesner <swiesner@lunaryorn.com>
Cc: 18077@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18077: 24.4.50; Info-quoted face should inherit default
Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 15:11:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8338dpk58h.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7771859.W4ZpDVRkmj@lunaryorn>
> From: Sebastian Wiesner <swiesner@lunaryorn.com>
> Cc: 18077@debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:25:47 +0200
>
> > Would you like to suggest a patch for fixing this problem? Please
> > note that the underlying issue here is that the font should provide
> > nice-looking glyphs for the Unicode quote characters.
>
> I do not think that I am in a position to suggest a patch that could generally
> fix this problem. I use Emacs only in two different environments, and have no
> idea of what limits and constraints Emacs must obey with regards to fonts to
> remain portable across various platforms.
>
> I can only say that for my case it would be entirely sufficient to simply make
> Info-quoted inherit from default, i.e. use '((:inherit default)) as spec in
> defface.
>
> But I only use a GUI Emacs, and only on very recent and modern systems (Arch
> Linux with KDE, and OS X 10.9), where Unicode fonts are less of a problem. On
> these systems Emacs typically picks a font with good unicode coverage for the
> default face automatically, e.g. DejaVu Sans Mono or a variant thereof.
Character coverage is not the problem. The problem is that some
widely used fonts that cover these characters have ugly or barely
visible glyphs for them.
> inheriting from default seems to be the standard among other
> built-in faces.
I would trust Stefan (who introduced this face) that he knows that for
quite some time, and had his reasons for not doing that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-25 12:11 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 [this message]
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
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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