Subject: Re: bug#24510: 25.1; Info: searching for ` does not find what looks like `

From: Clément Pit--Claudel <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2016 14:40:54 -0400

On 2016-09-24 14:34, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>>> > > Emacs supports non-programming applications as well, not just
>>> > > programming modes.  In fact, the trigger for this discussion was Info,
>>> > > a non-programming mode very close to Text mode.
>> > 
>> > Why does info use a monospace font?
> Because Texinfo produces filled text on the assumption that it will be
> displayed with monospaced font.  The Info format was invented for
> text-mode readers, and it uses hard newlines where the line should be
> broken.  This doesn't work well with variable-pitch fonts.

Ok.  In that case, maybe we should just change the default font of the Info reader.  Do we know of any Info manuals written in Arabic or Hebrew?  If not, is there a point to using Courier New there?

Clément.