Re: Some developement questions

[Paul Eggert]

hw wrote:
> My first step with 'emacs -q' would be to make the menu fonts larger.
> As much as I like monospace fonts, the typewriter font used for the text
> was *really ugly* even 30 years ago.  One look at Emacs with this font
> might turn most people away before they start reading anything.

This matches my perception too, when I show Emacs to students. Emacs starts up 
in monospace font and that looks sooooo 1980s.  It's like showing them a 
medieval manuscript: cool in some sense, but they won't want to spend much of 
their working lives using it.

A little bit of marketing would help here. The initial contents of *scratch*, 
the mode line, and the minibuffer need not be monospaced, and would all benefit 
from a better font.