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Re: Question on fonts
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T.V Raman |
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Re: Question on fonts |
Date: |
Thu, 23 Jan 2020 10:17:35 -0800 |
we're talking across one another.
I did not suggest a change in core emacs, I suggested that someone
interested in helping users ease into emacs could write up a set of
font choices that work in a given situation. Let's close this thread.
Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > From: "T.V Raman" <address@hidden>
> > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:47:44 -0800
> > Cc: address@hidden,
> > address@hidden,
> > address@hidden,
> > address@hidden
> >
> > More precisely, my question was in the context of helping users choose
> > a font that is best suited to their needs --- the task is likely
> > something that can be achieved by someone with the
> > interest/motivation creating an appropriate theme.
>
> So you did mean a more general question.
>
> In that case, I don't see how we could do a better job than we already
> have in fontest.el. The problem here is that (a) we cannot know which
> fonts are installed on the end-user's machine, and (b) many fonts that
> people so like to use and advertise aren't free, so we don't want to
> promote them by including them in our fontest. And on top of all
> that, there's the personal preferences of each user, which IME are
> quite different.
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