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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] master a5c4ffd: Improve comments in faces.el
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@ 2017-07-16  1:06   ` Stefan Monnier
  2017-07-16  2:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Stefan Monnier @ 2017-07-16  1:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: emacs-devel; +Cc: Eli Zaretskii

> +    ;; One of its uses is for 'tex-verbatim' and 'Info-quoted' faces,
> +    ;; so the result must be different from the default face's font,
> +    ;; and must be monospaced.

Not sure if it's important to be different from the default face.
But for tex-verbatim, it's important to be serif'd so as to look like
tex's `verbatim`.


        Stefan



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* Re: [Emacs-diffs] master a5c4ffd: Improve comments in faces.el
  2017-07-16  1:06   ` [Emacs-diffs] master a5c4ffd: Improve comments in faces.el Stefan Monnier
@ 2017-07-16  2:37     ` Eli Zaretskii
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2017-07-16  2:37 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stefan Monnier; +Cc: emacs-devel

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2017 21:06:53 -0400
> 
> > +    ;; One of its uses is for 'tex-verbatim' and 'Info-quoted' faces,
> > +    ;; so the result must be different from the default face's font,
> > +    ;; and must be monospaced.
> 
> Not sure if it's important to be different from the default face.

It's important at least for Info-quoted.

> But for tex-verbatim, it's important to be serif'd so as to look like
> tex's `verbatim`.

Feel free to add to the commentary, I think we should have this info
in the comments so people don't try to make changes that go against
the intended uses of the respective faces.



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