From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings via "Emacs development discussions." Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Suggest installing more fonts? Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:59:47 +0000 Message-ID: References: <87wnzqa1be.fsf@gnus.org> <83y2k6v378.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuuuuygf.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Gregory Heytings Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39745"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Alpine 2.22 (NEB 394 2020-01-19) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 16 15:01:53 2020 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPMm-000ADK-Ad for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 15:01:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35714 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPMl-000731-Bj for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 09:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49574) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPKw-0006I6-6u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:59:58 -0400 Original-Received: from mx.sdf.org ([205.166.94.24]:55043) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1kTPKt-0003xa-TP; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:59:57 -0400 Original-Received: from sdf.org (IDENT:ghe@faeroes.freeshell.org [205.166.94.9]) by mx.sdf.org (8.15.2/8.14.5) with ESMTPS id 09GCxnf9001448 (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256 bits) verified NO); Fri, 16 Oct 2020 12:59:50 GMT Original-Received: (from ghe@localhost) by sdf.org (8.15.2/8.12.8/Submit) id 09GD0DGY028077; Fri, 16 Oct 2020 13:00:13 GMT In-Reply-To: <83tuuuuygf.fsf@gnu.org> Received-SPF: pass client-ip=205.166.94.24; envelope-from=ghe@sdf.org; helo=mx.sdf.org X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: First seen = 2020/10/16 07:30:46 X-ACL-Warn: Detected OS = ??? X-Spam_score_int: -18 X-Spam_score: -1.9 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.9 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:257800 Archived-At: >> A suggestion: would it not be better to include a version of GNU >> Unifont in Emacs? > > Including a font with Emacs is problematic, since installing a font > requires system-wide actions. > PDF readers use the fonts embedded in PDF files, so I would guess that Emacs could use a built-in font (without installing it). > > (Personally, I think Unifont is an ugly font, with many character glyphs > completely illegible, and distributing is with Emacs will only cause us > look unprofessional. But that's my personal view.) > It is an ugly font indeed, the point is only to use it in place of the (even more ugly) boxes with a hex code. I think it is ugly "by design", it aims at a very broad coverage without becoming too large.