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Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.
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Nikolai Weibull |
Subject: |
Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs. |
Date: |
Tue, 23 Jun 2015 21:51:39 +0200 |
On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2015 21:05:42 +0200
>> From: Nikolai Weibull <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Brief Busters <address@hidden>, Stephen Turnbull <address@hidden>,
>> address@hidden, address@hidden,
>> address@hidden, Emacs Developers <address@hidden>
>>
>> > You want to see curved, compare with
>> > Symbola or Lucida Console.
>> So if a user happens to use these fonts they’ll be fine?
> No.
I don’t see why. I thought that the lack of curvature was why the
user would be confused in regard to DejaVu Sans Mono, but then they
shouldn’t be confused if they use a mono-spaced font with enough
curvature. But I’ll drop it, as I feel that this is just getting
confrontational for no good reason.
>> >> Do you mean that most users of Emacs who read their e-mail in a
>> >> mono-spaced font may be confused by their font’s poor rendering of
>> >> real quotation marks?
>> >
>> > No, I mean that seeing these quotes in scientific and professional
>> > literature won't help, because they are typeset in a very different
>> > typeface there.
>>
>> So they’re expected to be able to read but not be able to see past the
>> minute differences between two symbols (which are their own mirror
>> images, so really only one) in two different typefaces?
>
> They shouldn't be expected to be able to distinguish between
> confusingly similar, but subtly different characters.
Which is probably why most people don’t.
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., (continued)
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Nikolai Weibull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Nikolai Weibull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Nikolai Weibull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Nikolai Weibull, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Eli Zaretskii, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.,
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- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Matthew Carter, 2015/06/23
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- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Marcin Borkowski, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/29
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Stefan Monnier, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/23
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Richard Stallman, 2015/06/24
- Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs., Dmitry Gutov, 2015/06/24