GNU bug report logs - #19889
tex-verbatim face: don't specify :family?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 20:40:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 24.4

Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 19889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, rgm <at> gnu.org, monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA
Subject: bug#19889: bug#22207: emacs-25 mishandles info code text on Fedora 23
Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 20:18:03 +0300

> Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 19889 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
>  Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Fri, 6 May 2016 08:59:48 -0700
> 
> I am by no means an expert on Emacs fonts or on font technology in 
> general. That being said, I would like to fix this blocking bug, and 
> Stefan’s suggestion was the only concrete one on the table. If the patch 
> is problematic, then is there a better way to fix this bug?

We could specify the font explicitly.

> More specifically: is it the introduction of ‘fixed-pitch-serif’
> that you’re objecting to, or the addition of FreeMono and Nimbus
> Mono L as fonts to look for

The latter.  I see that as a (perhaps complicated and a bit
unreliable) way of specifying a font which we know we want to get as
result.  If so, why not specify the font explicitly?
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