Re: Summary line format and gnus-face-X

[Tassilo Horn <tsdh@gnu.org>]

Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

>> That's nice for (2), but bad for (1).  Now I can have
>> colorized/boldified subjects with proportional fonts, but my column
>> separators and stuff are also mangled which I don't want.
>
> The problem is really more practical than theoretical.  Emacs doesn't
> provide "combining" faces when using text properties.  You can put
> overlays over text (say, italic and then green), but you can't do that
> with text properties.  So Gnus has the option of either overwriting
> your carefully chosen faces, or not touching them, and there isn't
> much of a third choice.
>
> Until Emacs implements combining `face' text properties, which is
> something that I really really really want to have.  Overlays are
> yucky.

Ok, I see.  It's not much of an issue for me.  After some time of
testing, I found out that having monospaced fonts everywhere is more
readable for me anyway. :-)

Bye,
Tassilo