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#19889
tex-verbatim face: don't specify :family?
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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>
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Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Courier New is the default font on MS-Windows, so selecting it means
> we will have a face that is indistinguishable from the default: not
> good.
OK, the patch I just sent to Bug#19889 does that.
> Consolas comes with latest Windows versions out of the box, so I don't
> think there's a problem in having it on the list (we could do that
> only on Windows, if we don't want to recommend it on GNU/Linux).
Probably not worth the hassle. I merely listed it after Courier 10 Pitch.
> I don't understand what "monospace" means in that list. There's no
> such font, AFAIK, and all the other fonts are monospaced already, so
> what's behind that "monospace"? any other monospaced font?
The source was talking about CSS, and I guess "monospace" has a meaning in CSS
that is roughly the same as "Monospace" in face-font-family-alternatives.
> Other than that, how about using the outcome of that census, and
> request specific fonts it mentions, ordered by their quality, as the
> census recommends? I think this will yield better results than
> relying on family matches.
The patch I just sent does that, by inventing a name "Monospace Serif" as a way
to make the request conveniently as an argument to :family when using defface.
It sounds like you may prefer doing this sort of thing in some other way, but I
do not know what that way would be and so would appreciate any advice, as I am
by no means an expert in Emacs font configuration and am just trying to get the
bug fixed for the typical user.
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