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From: Uday Reddy <uDOTsDOTreddy@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:33:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4d92ead3$0$23757$14726298@news.sunsite.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <516de695-18e0-4442-9616-63bc24b99a58@18g2000prd.googlegroups.com>

On 3/30/2011 3:47 AM, rusi wrote:

> By reducing these questions to habits, the implication is that say for
> younger folk who only know 'modern' technology (like Word) things like
> emacs will be suboptimal and in fact make no sense.

No, I didn't imply that.  Monospace may be better for the younger folk 
too.  Or, maybe it isn't.  They will have to try out for themselves and 
figure out which works better.  I am afraid I don't have a theory of 
monospace.  You are probably looking for one ;-)

On the other hand, the notion that proportional fonts are easier to read 
will have plenty of takers.  So, everything Emacs can do to support 
proportional fonts will be very welcome.

Cheers,
Uday


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-30  8:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-28 16:22 Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23 Erin Brinkley
2011-03-28 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-28 18:30 ` Tassilo Horn
     [not found] ` <mailman.5.1301337042.1646.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-28 23:58   ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-29  2:00     ` rusi
2011-03-29 19:28       ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-30  2:47         ` rusi
2011-03-30  8:33           ` Uday Reddy [this message]
2011-03-30 13:30             ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-30 15:20               ` rusi
2011-03-30 15:53                 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-30 18:14                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-30 19:49                     ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-30 20:29                       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                   ` <mailman.8.1301508895.9824.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-31  4:58                     ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-31 18:42                       ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found]                       ` <mailman.13.1301596981.19576.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-31 19:38                         ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-31 19:51                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-01 17:26                         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-30 16:42               ` Peter Dyballa
2011-03-30  9:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
     [not found] <mailman.0.1301334352.1646.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-28 23:01 ` Xah Lee

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