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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Default Info face
Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:06:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861py4ncp1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r0650wbb.fsf@ledu-giraud.fr> (message from Manuel Giraud on Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:50:48 +0100)

> From: Manuel Giraud <manuel@ledu-giraud.fr>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 17:50:48 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > So why is it so important to use variable-pitch face for Info?  What
> > are the advantages of that?
> 
> Well, I'm far from an expert on the matter but it is said™ that for
> reading long text a proportional font is easier on the eyes.  I think
> most books are printed with a proportional font.

Well, that's true, but we in Emacs are staring at fixed-pitch text all
day long, and are supposed to be used to it.

I don't think I'd object to something like Info-variable-pitch-mode,
as an optional minor mode, but it could be quite a lot of work, since
we have other faces in Info manuals that should look well with such a
default.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-18 17:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-18 10:00 Default Info face Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-18 10:22 ` tomas
2024-12-18 12:18   ` Eric S Fraga
2024-12-18 13:34     ` tomas
2024-12-18 12:46   ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-18 12:54     ` tomas
2024-12-18 14:42       ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-18 14:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-18 14:50   ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-18 15:28     ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-18 16:50       ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-18 17:06         ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-12-19  9:02           ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-19 11:06     ` Stefan Kangas
2024-12-19 16:28       ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.
2024-12-18 17:17 ` Juri Linkov
2024-12-19  9:32   ` Manuel Giraud via Emacs development discussions.

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