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artist mode rectangle shows ugly in Emacs

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: Dean Chen <dean.chen <at> graphsql.com>, 24175 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24175: artist mode rectangle shows ugly in Emacs
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2018 01:15:15 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Dean Chen <dean.chen <at> graphsql.com>
>> Date: Sun, 7 Aug 2016 13:22:12 +0800
>> 
>> I am trying draw rectangle today in Emacs with artist mode. It looks weird, see following screenshot.
>> Inline image 1
>> 
>> But if I open this text file with chromium browser instead of emacs, it looks normally. I guess the way that
>> Emacs render this rectangle has a bug.
>
> I think the problem is that your default font is a proportional one.
> You should use a fixed-pitch font when you work with artist mode.

Should artist-mode perhaps error out if the default font is a
proportional font?

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