From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Use another font for some characters Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 12:22:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83oa339kbt.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87d1jkey8x.fsf@gmail.com> <8360pbkzt6.fsf@gnu.org> <87d1jjf88t.fsf@gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1475400195 13097 195.159.176.226 (2 Oct 2016 09:23:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 09:23:15 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 02 11:23:10 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-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 1bqczA-00025f-UQ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 11:23:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58683 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcz9-00085y-IV for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 05:23:03 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:47730) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcyk-00083s-FW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 05:22:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcye-000471-Fy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 05:22:37 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44246) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcye-00045v-Cy for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 05:22:32 -0400 Original-Received: from 84.94.185.246.cable.012.net.il ([84.94.185.246]:3706 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:128) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1bqcya-00040J-LO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 02 Oct 2016 05:22:30 -0400 In-reply-to: <87d1jjf88t.fsf@gmail.com> (message from Alex Kost on Sun, 02 Oct 2016 11:46:58 +0300) 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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:111436 Archived-At: > From: Alex Kost > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > Date: Sun, 02 Oct 2016 11:46:58 +0300 > > Just to mention: these unpleasant effects don't bother me. Please also note that Symbola is a variable-pitch font. It might not bother you, but others might very well be bothered (and were bothered during the Emacs 25 development), which is why we switched to use the default font (which is always monospaced) in the default configuration. > > May I ask why you don't want these characters displayed by your > > default font? > > Because Symbola's arrows look much better for me! I mean I like my > default font (Liberation) for most characters, but for some characters I > prefer to use other fonts. Then please file a feature request bug report for this aspect to be customizable. We could add a user option to disable the automatic use of the default font for symbols and punctuation.