From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
To: David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Monospace font bug?
Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2008 13:22:07 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prlobneo.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4902B4CF.5090503@harpegolden.net> (David De La Harpe Golden's message of "Sat, 25 Oct 2008 06:55:27 +0100")
David De La Harpe Golden <david@harpegolden.net> writes:
> No. but is it desirable to? If emacs says "monospace"
> to the OS, and the OS returns something usable (see below), should
> emacs second guess it? The distros with ttf-georgewilliams packages
> seem to be aware of the issue and are fixing it by removing or
> renaming the font in favour of the de-facto standard "monospace"
> virtual font name
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gw-fonts-ttf/+bug/95357/comments/6
That is a good argument.
I'll add an entry about this to etc/PROBLEMS; we can leave the rest of
Emacs unchanged.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-25 17:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-25 1:32 Monospace font bug? Chong Yidong
2008-10-25 3:08 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-25 4:17 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-25 4:44 ` Chong Yidong
2008-10-25 5:55 ` David De La Harpe Golden
2008-10-25 17:22 ` Chong Yidong [this message]
2008-10-25 18:22 ` Stefan Monnier
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