Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net> writes:

> Another thing I noticed is that only the active modeline has variable
> pitch; perhaps all mode line faces (including mode-line-inactive) need
> adjustment?

I don't see this -- perhaps you've altered that face yourself?

>> Other obvious candidates for variable-pitching are basically any mode
>> that displays data in tabular form.  And, of course, the manuals, but
>> that'll happen by itself once we move from .info to .html.
>
> Will this move only affect Emacs?

Yes.

> Perhaps it would make sense to augment the Info format with extra
> information, so that all Info documentation would look better in all
> Info readers.

That would require changing all those other Info readers, which isn't
feasible.

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