From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Uday Reddy Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23 Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:28:07 +0100 Organization: SunSITE.dk - Supporting Open source Message-ID: <4d9232cb$0$23752$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> References: <898836.13190.qm@web121803.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> <4d9120aa$0$23756$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> <47119ce7-b1d1-4967-aa3e-d10112f10510@q40g2000prh.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301428445 2017 80.91.229.12 (29 Mar 2011 19:54:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:54:05 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 29 21:53:55 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4ezD-0006Sn-7a for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:53:55 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43842 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4ezC-0002Gm-5B for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 29 Mar 2011 15:53:54 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!feed118.news.tele.dk!dotsrc.org!filter.dotsrc.org!news.dotsrc.org!not-for-mail User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.23 (Windows/20090812) Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <47119ce7-b1d1-4967-aa3e-d10112f10510@q40g2000prh.googlegroups.com> Original-Lines: 17 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 147.188.194.56 Original-X-Trace: news.sunsite.dk DXC=keA9NYH]bA6HcN9lh?6D[2YSB=nbEKnk; 5DMU8coHF@<^H_C>[:W; B6UdS?DZIH?U16E]45i7E1P1I8h?5d1H:H52^F_0aNJO>9d2`Z\ List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80512 Archived-At: rusi wrote: >> Well, my subjective feeling is that I read better if the text is in >> proportional font, and I can write better if it is in monospace. > > This is an interesting observation. (Especially the second part) > Do you have a clue why? It must again be the habit of typing in monospace for years. Your eyes are looking for text in a particular place but the proportional font condenses it. On occasion when I have to write documents for Word, I type it in Emacs first and then cut-and-paste it into Word. I had even written some Emacs commands for it in the old days. But, now that we have the visual-line-mode, a straight cut-and-paste will work fine. Cheers, Uday