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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: 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 11:25:54 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83d2ctkfot.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8761ipn711.fsf@lunaryorn.fritz.box>

> From: swiesner@lunaryorn.com
> Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 10:15:38 +0200
> 
> Currently, the `Info-quoted' face is defined as follows in info.el:
> 
> (defface Info-quoted
>   '((t :family "courier"))
>   "Face used for quoted elements.")

This also violates the convention that Info face names start with a
lower-case letter.

> I do no think that mode faces should *hard-code* specific font families,
> and thus bypass any customization of the default face that the user
> might have made to pick their preferred font.
> 
> Besides, courier is not a particularly friendly choice.  There is no
> specific font with that name.  The actual font depends on the font
> configuration and aliasing picked by the OS and the user, and depending
> on the quality of this configuration the appearance of this font varies
> greatly.  If the configuration is particularly poor, or if a proper
> substitute font is missing, Emacs might even fall back to X11 bitmap
> fonts, which are particularly ugly on modern screens.
> 
> So just because it's pretty on your screen, it doesn't need to be pretty
> on some else's screen.
> 
> Please remove the hard-coded font family and inherit from the default
> face instead.

Thank you for your report.

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.





  reply	other threads:[~2014-07-25  8:25 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 [this message]
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
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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