From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
Cc: 24597@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info
Date: Mon, 03 Oct 2016 20:29:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8337kdpci2.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3d8c3427-b5da-4d88-a0de-044bec367b34@default> (message from Drew Adams on Mon, 3 Oct 2016 09:35:53 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 09:35:53 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 24597@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > > Why use, by default, two **slightly** different looking fonts? They are
> > > not different enough to make ‘...’ very noticeable. Nor are they the
> > > same. What's the point of this choice?
> >
> > The point is exactly to have a different face for symbols.
>
> I don't disagree with that point.
>
> What's the point of using family Courier for one and Courier New for
> the other? That's the question. Doesn't seem like a great choice.
I believe we don't specify Courier, it's just what Emacs picks up on a
typical Windows machine when we ask for a "Monospace Serif" font. See
the definition of the Info-quoted face in info.el.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-03 17:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-03 15:48 bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info Drew Adams
2016-10-03 16:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-03 16:35 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-03 17:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-10-03 17:53 ` Drew Adams
2016-10-03 18:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-03 18:44 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-03 19:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-10-03 21:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2016-10-04 6:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-09-29 4:15 ` Stefan Kangas
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