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.
next prev parent 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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