From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#33967: [Feature Request] Use proportional fonts in Info-mode Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 08:50:15 +0200 Message-ID: <83muog3oig.fsf@gnu.org> References: <29a0d099-3af3-446e-9f0f-d5c2aacfcaf9@www.fastmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1546584548 6549 195.159.176.226 (4 Jan 2019 06:49:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 06:49:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 33967@debbugs.gnu.org To: "Alex Griffin" Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 04 07:49:04 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@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 1gfJHz-0001bf-0w for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 07:49:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59968 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfJK5-0003d5-F8 for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:51:13 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:37277) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfJJx-0003cn-Bp for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfJJu-00022L-7j for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:51:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.43]:58389) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfJJu-00022E-4L for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gfJJt-0001op-UP for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:51:01 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Eli Zaretskii Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 06:51:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: followup 33967 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: Original-Received: via spool by 33967-submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B33967.15465846326953 (code B ref 33967); Fri, 04 Jan 2019 06:51:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at 33967) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Jan 2019 06:50:32 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46172 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gfJJQ-0001o2-2e for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:50:32 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:46742) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gfJJM-0001nt-Ja for 33967@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:50:29 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfJJI-0001Fn-6q for 33967@debbugs.gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:50:28 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35903) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfJJC-0001Ar-88; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:50:18 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2964 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gfJJB-0003WW-Mj; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 01:50:18 -0500 In-reply-to: <29a0d099-3af3-446e-9f0f-d5c2aacfcaf9@www.fastmail.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18 Precedence: list X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 208.118.235.43 X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "bug-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:154126 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2019 15:35:07 -0500 > From: "Alex Griffin" > > Right now Emacs' built-in info viewer renders almost everything using the default face. I can set the default face to a proportional font and read most manuals just fine, but sometimes fixed-width fonts are assumed. Try using a proportional font on "(ledger3)Register Report" for example. It renders terribly in Emacs even though texinfo's html output successfully mixes proportional and fixed-width fonts [1]. > > It would be nice to improve it by using proportional fonts where appropriate, and fixed-width fonts only where necessary. This would improve readability and better match texinfo's html output. AFAIU, this is not feasible as long as we use the Info format of the manual, because 'makeinfo' formats the manual under the assumption that it will be read using a fixed-pitch typeface, and ends each visual line with a hard newline. HTML format avoids that because it leaves it to the browser to reflow and break text into lines. AFAIK, there's work under way to improve the HTML output so that it could provide the features we want from a GNU manual reader, and then switch the GNU Info readers to supporting that. But this is a long-term goal, and cannot be reached by changes in Emacs alone.