From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: master d014a5e: Use fixed-pitch font for display-line-numbers Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 10:12:06 +0300 Message-ID: <831spjh4qh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20170711151708.4322.33014@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <20170711151709.2AE9822E0A@vcs0.savannah.gnu.org> <8760eyv7mc.fsf@holos> <83h8yhiuy3.fsf@gnu.org> <83wp7cgwie.fsf@gnu.org> <83k23cgny7.fsf@gnu.org> <87shi08562.fsf@lylat> <87379zzf8x.fsf@lylat> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1500016341 3682 195.159.176.226 (14 Jul 2017 07:12:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 07:12:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alex Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jul 14 09:12:14 2017 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1dVulo-0000P9-Il for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 09:12:12 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35904 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVuls-0005fG-Ai for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:12:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56006) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVull-0005f0-Tu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:12:10 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVuli-0004D9-QA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:12:09 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:53748) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1dVuli-0004D3-Ms; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:12:06 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:4016 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1dVulg-0001BB-6U; Fri, 14 Jul 2017 03:12:05 -0400 In-reply-to: <87379zzf8x.fsf@lylat> (message from Alex on Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:47:42 -0600) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:216637 Archived-At: > From: Alex > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Fri, 14 Jul 2017 00:47:42 -0600 > > In any case, I find it odd that courier is the first fallback in > "Monospace". I suppose this may be what you meant by "the code tells a > different story". What about searching first for some other popular > sans-serif alternatives, such as Liberation Mono? IMO it would be good to make the "Monospace" family better on supported platforms, feel free (you or anyone else) to suggest changes. Just remember that the actual font families we put there should satisfy the following basic requirements: . they should either come with the OS out of the box, or be free fonts . they should be present on all (or at least most) versions of the OS (if they are not available on all versions, the order in the family list should be tailored accordingly, with those which are always available last) . if family looks good on one platform, but ugly on another, we should probably not include it Thanks. P.S. On my system here Courier is not a TTF/OTF font, so it looks ugly.