Re: modal proportionality, redux

[Stefan Monnier]

> >>>>> "SM" == Stefan Monnier <monnier+gnu/address@hidden> writes:
> 
>  SM> I'm actually also wondering why the default font was changed from
>  SM> fixed to courier since I find courier less readable at equivalent
>  SM> sizes.
> 
> I assume it's because Courier has bold/oblique variants.

Hmm... that would makes some sense.
Although `fixed' (aka 6x13) also has bold and oblique (I should know,
I went to the trouble of making an oblique variant, only to see it
thrown away by XFree86 people because they got a "unicode fixed"
from somewhere else, already with oblique variant).


        Stefan