From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.ciao.gmane.io!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Question on fonts Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:14:25 +0200 Message-ID: <8336c6t4zi.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83o8uuu9of.fsf@gnu.org> <83muaetfzt.fsf@gnu.org> <24105.52784.451816.290915@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="ciao.gmane.io:159.69.161.202"; logging-data="24978"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: rpluim@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jpff@codemist.co.uk To: "T.V Raman" Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Jan 23 20:49:11 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iuiTW-0006Rq-R1 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 20:49:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60598 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iuiTV-0001d5-QU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 14:49:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:43719) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iugzx-0002oq-OE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:14:34 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:34954) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iugzx-0006IB-8j; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:14:33 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3648 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1iugzv-0006x1-8Q; Thu, 23 Jan 2020 13:14:32 -0500 In-reply-to: <24105.52784.451816.290915@retriever.mtv.corp.google.com> (raman@google.com) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:244546 Archived-At: > From: "T.V Raman" > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:47:44 -0800 > Cc: raman@google.com, > jpff@codemist.co.uk, > rpluim@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > More precisely, my question was in the context of helping users choose > a font that is best suited to their needs --- the task is likely > something that can be achieved by someone with the > interest/motivation creating an appropriate theme. So you did mean a more general question. In that case, I don't see how we could do a better job than we already have in fontest.el. The problem here is that (a) we cannot know which fonts are installed on the end-user's machine, and (b) many fonts that people so like to use and advertise aren't free, so we don't want to promote them by including them in our fontest. And on top of all that, there's the personal preferences of each user, which IME are quite different.