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bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info |
Date: |
Mon, 03 Oct 2016 21:26:04 +0300 |
> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 10:53:34 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
> Cc: 24597@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > I believe we don't specify Courier, it's just what Emacs picks up on a
> > typical Windows machine when we ask for a "Monospace Serif" font. See
> > the definition of the Info-quoted face in info.el.
>
> Hm. What I see is that we specify the "courier" family, not that we ask
> for a "Monospace Serif" font:
>
> (defface Info-quoted '((t :family "courier"))
> "Face used for quoted elements.")
That's strange: it's "courier" in 25.1, but the release branch says
fixed-pitch-serif, and the change was in May, so should have been in
the released Emacs 25.1.
Nicolas, can you shed some light on this?
> I know nothing about such things, but it seems odd that MS Windows
> creates font Courier New, and seems to use it by default quite a bit,
> and yet we tell it to use family "courier", and it ends up using
> font Courier (if available), not Courier New.
It chooses the first font that satisfies the request.
> [I'd suggest using two fonts that are more different, by default.
> For one thing, that would make clear to users that a face is involved.
That's what we do, except that this somehow didn't get into Emacs
25.1.
- bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info, Drew Adams, 2016/10/03
- bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/03
- bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info, Drew Adams, 2016/10/03
- bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/03
- bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info, Drew Adams, 2016/10/03
- bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info, Andreas Schwab, 2016/10/03
- bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/03
- bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info, Andreas Schwab, 2016/10/03
- bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/10/04