From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#18077: 24.4.50; Info-quoted face should inherit default Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:25:54 +0300 Message-ID: <83d2ctkfot.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8761ipn711.fsf@lunaryorn.fritz.box> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1406276785 29845 80.91.229.3 (25 Jul 2014 08:26:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:26:25 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 18077@debbugs.gnu.org To: swiesner@lunaryorn.com Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 25 10:26:18 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XAapV-0002JW-Uh for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 10:26:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53589 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAapV-0005Wp-HG for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:26:17 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58830) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAapM-0005Vf-Or for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:26:14 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAapG-0002Fl-Hq for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:26:08 -0400 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:42089) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XAapG-0002Fh-ES for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:26:02 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XAapF-00072J-QF for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:26:02 -0400 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:26:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 18077 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 18077-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B18077.140627675727037 (code B ref 18077); Fri, 25 Jul 2014 08:26:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 18077) by debbugs.gnu.org; 25 Jul 2014 08:25:57 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:37355 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XAapA-000720-FR for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:25:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout21.012.net.il ([80.179.55.169]:58557) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1XAap6-00071l-UV for 18077@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 04:25:54 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout21.012.net.il by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N9900D00DRBAM00@a-mtaout21.012.net.il> for 18077@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:25:46 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout21.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N9900D0SE2YAT10@a-mtaout21.012.net.il>; Fri, 25 Jul 2014 11:25:46 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <8761ipn711.fsf@lunaryorn.fritz.box> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 140.186.70.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:91780 Archived-At: > 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.