Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less

[Ricardo Wurmus]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:
>
>> Another thing I noticed is that only the active modeline has variable
>> pitch; perhaps all mode line faces (including mode-line-inactive) need
>> adjustment?
>
> I don't see this -- perhaps you've altered that face yourself?

Perhaps smart-mode-line did it.  Sorry for the noise.

>>> Other obvious candidates for variable-pitching are basically any mode
>>> that displays data in tabular form.  And, of course, the manuals, but
>>> that'll happen by itself once we move from .info to .html.
>>
>> Will this move only affect Emacs?
>
> Yes.
>
>> Perhaps it would make sense to augment the Info format with extra
>> information, so that all Info documentation would look better in all
>> Info readers.
>
> That would require changing all those other Info readers, which isn't
> feasible.

There aren’t many Info readers, but there are countless .info documents
across GNU and beyond.  Changing the Info format (and Info readers with
it) seems the better choice.

-- 
Ricardo