From: Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info>
To: ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Italics in Emacs
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 10:25:20 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <sa3tyguzojj.fsf@cigue.easter-eggs.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <877hdr8798.fsf_-_@gnus.org> (Lars Ingebrigtsen's message of "Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:28:35 -0800")
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On Thu, Jan 27 2011, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote:
> I could, but then I didn't really see much sense in having these (and
> only these) be configurable.
Probably the rest should be configurable too, but I at least needed this
ones while reading a long rss2mail mail recently.
> The Emacs display engine is way too weak to deal with fonts of differing
> sizes in general. If you increase the size of h1, for instance, it
> won't get filled properly, in addition to the fore-mentioned table
> problems.
>
> 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.
>> Currently, I read some posts with a lot of h[3-6] headings, and I am not
>> able to distinguish them (my font does not have italic, so h3 is like
>> h[4-6]), which is totally uncomfortable.
>
> Couldn't you install a font with italics? :-)
>
> By the way, I just noticed that the font I'm using on this machine
> ("Inconsolata:pixelsize=27") doesn't seem to have italics, either..
> Anybody know how to fix that? I think the font itself should have
> italics, but Emacs doesn't display them...
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.
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Julien Danjou
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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 ` Julien Danjou [this message]
2011-01-27 23:47 ` Italics in Emacs Lars Ingebrigtsen
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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