From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/76095 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eric S Fraga Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Italics in Emacs Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:41:40 +0000 Message-ID: <874o8tasl7.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> References: <877hdr8798.fsf_-_@gnus.org> <8739od3o40.fsf@gnus.org> <87oc71rp69.fsf@lifelogs.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1296232946 24179 80.91.229.12 (28 Jan 2011 16:42:26 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:42:26 +0000 (UTC) To: ding@gnus.org Original-X-From: ding-owner+M24447@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jan 28 17:42:21 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PirOp-0004BO-Sp for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:42:16 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PirOb-0001NW-UB; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:42:01 -0600 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1PirOa-0001NI-O7 for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:42:00 -0600 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PirON-0006Hc-EI for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:42:00 -0600 Original-Received: from vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk ([144.82.108.141]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PirOK-0006lv-IK for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 17:41:44 +0100 Original-Received: from 79-67-232-178.dynamic.dsl.as9105.com ([79.67.232.178] helo=localhost) by vscane-b.ucl.ac.uk with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.72) (envelope-from ) id 1PirOH-0007em-9Y for ding@gnus.org; Fri, 28 Jan 2011 16:41:41 +0000 X-Face: av6A"vZ{AypDB`d^.T35oG%$E*Qh]4F)K=*$-NHz5{7WZfAFQFB]F@gf}l9`XLs9(iD?D/! nafKE,S#G!4W/flj=9(U{]t'lP,,5~:s*~;kKR In-Reply-To: <87oc71rp69.fsf@lifelogs.com> (Ted Zlatanov's message of "Fri, 28 Jan 2011 10:03:26 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-UCL-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the UCL Helpdesk, helpdesk@ucl.ac.uk for more information X-UCL-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UCL-MailScanner-From: e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Score: -4.9 (----) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:76095 Archived-At: Ted Zlatanov writes: > On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:47:59 -0800 Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > LI> Oh, darn. I really like Inconsolata. It's, by far, the most pleasant > LI> font I've used in Emacs... > > I like Inconsolata a lot, but Terminus fits me better. Terminus also > doesn't have italics, but has an oblique version at least. The major > issues for me are always 0 vs. O (both put a slash through 0 so it looks > different) and l vs. 1 (they look very similar in both, which annoys > me). Terminus also has better Unicode coverage IIRC, which matters to > me. See http://www.lowing.org/fonts/ if you want to see other > choices. I use "Liberation Mono" which is not quite as nice as Inconsolata *but* does have a very good distinction between 0/O and l/1/i, and also supports italics. -- : Eric S Fraga (GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D) in Emacs 24.0.50.1 + No Gnus v0.11