From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Italics in Emacs
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:47:59 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8739od3o40.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <sa3tyguzojj.fsf@cigue.easter-eggs.fr>
>> So I'm not sure having them being customisable is a good thing, because
>> users will set them and then they will complain about how ugly some
>> things look.
>
> I think you are over-thinking here.
That's just my experience. Nerds expect perfection, or nothing at all!
:-) (They're just as happy with nothing at all. I mean, just look at
how many nerds are using the Gmail web interface these days...)
> Guess what, I'm using Inconsolata too. It's the best font I found to use
> for Emacs and terminals. This fonts does not have italics support,
> there's nothing to fix here.
Oh, darn. I really like Inconsolata. It's, by far, the most pleasant
font I've used in Emacs...
Can't Emacs auto-slant things to make semi-italics? Googling shows
people saying stuff like "slant=1", but I can't get that to work...
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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2011-01-26 10:27 ` [gnus git] branch master updated: =1= * shr.el: Revert change that made headings use different-sized faces. The Emacs display engine isn't advanced enough that, for instance, tables can comfortably use differntly-sized faces Julien Danjou
2011-01-27 1:28 ` Italics in Emacs (was: [gnus git] branch master updated: =1= * shr.el: Revert change that made headings use different-sized faces. The Emacs display engine isn't advanced enough that, for instance, tables can comfortably use differntly-sized faces.) Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-27 9:25 ` Italics in Emacs Julien Danjou
2011-01-27 23:47 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2011-01-28 9:47 ` Julien Danjou
2011-01-28 16:03 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-28 16:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-28 22:05 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-28 23:41 ` Eric S Fraga
2011-01-29 1:17 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-28 22:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-28 23:11 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-29 1:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2011-01-31 17:15 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-01-31 18:53 ` Steinar Bang
2011-01-28 17:44 ` James Cloos
2011-01-28 22:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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