Re: Emacs master: different (ugly) font in org-mode [Windows, macOS]

[Ihor Radchenko <yantar92@gmail.com>]

Protesilaos Stavrou <info@protesilaos.com> writes:

> On 2021-10-06, 17:40 -0400, Stefan Kangas <stefankangas@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Angelo Graziosi <angelo.g0@libero.it> writes:
>>
>>> What Protesilaos suggested seems to work and it is what I will use on
>>> Windows and macOS.
>>
>> It seems unfortunate if org-mode will suddenly come with a poorly
>> rendered font on a major platform, where IIUC we previously had
>> something that was at least okay.
>>
>> Are the org-mode developers aware of this issue, and what do they have
>> to say about it?
>
> This has been in Org 9.5 since commit 667cb6f1a on 2021-04-27.  I had
> started the discussion about it in an email from 2020-09-09,[1] in which
> I had attached a diff.  No one commented on it back then and, to my
> knowledge, none has voiced an opinion about the change ever since.

Because your patch looked like an improvement ;)

> That granted, I now think this is a bad default.  Such a feature should
> be opt-in, otherwise it can catch users by surprise (as shown in this
> discussion---also related is bug#46971 for which I sent a patch with
> regard to the modus-themes).

> Can Org be patched for emacs-28?  How does this work in terms of syncing
> with org.git?  My suggestion would be to revert commit 667cb6f1a in
> org.git, though I am not sure how to proceed.

Given the raised concern, you can request reverting the patch in Org ML.
That should go to bugfix (=stable) branch. Then, Emacs devs can merge the latest
bugfix any time they prefer.

P.S. At least for tables, we also have an alternative solution for table
alignment in https://list.orgmode.org/8735uos5yj.fsf@localhost/

Best,
Ihor