From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel,gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs Subject: Re: Double hyphens in variable names. Date: 05 Oct 2003 09:53:47 +0900 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87znggzeqs.fsf@tc-1-100.kawasaki.gol.ne.jp> References: <200310040103.h9413Xq08288@f7.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065315437 3125 80.91.224.253 (5 Oct 2003 00:57:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 5 Oct 2003 00:57:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-texinfo@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 05 02:57:15 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5xD1-0003LF-00 for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:57:15 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5xD1-0008Ne-00 for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:57:15 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A5xAM-0005Jk-Gd for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2003 20:54:30 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A5xAH-0005JD-8C for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2003 20:54:25 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A5x9k-0005Ar-2j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2003 20:54:23 -0400 Original-Received: from [80.91.224.249] (helo=main.gmane.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A5x9j-0005Aa-Pt for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 04 Oct 2003 20:53:51 -0400 Original-Received: from list by main.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5x9i-0005m4-00 for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:53:50 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-Received: from sea.gmane.org ([80.91.224.252]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5x9g-0005lq-00 for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:53:48 +0200 Original-Received: from news by sea.gmane.org with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A5x9g-0000jd-00 for ; Sun, 05 Oct 2003 02:53:48 +0200 Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:16937 gmane.comp.tex.texinfo.bugs:1223 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:16937 Richard Stallman writes: > One other alternative is to use a fixed width font but slightly > smaller than the roman font now used. That might use little or no > extra space. It would have a drawback too, in reducing the visibility > of the function name, but it still could be better overall than using > a fixed width font of the same size. Mixing smaller font sizes in this way usually looks quite bad too. -Miles -- `The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement'