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bug#35157: 26.1; MacOSX Fixed Width Osaka Regular-Mono is variable width
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Alan Third |
Subject: |
bug#35157: 26.1; MacOSX Fixed Width Osaka Regular-Mono is variable width |
Date: |
Sat, 6 Apr 2019 16:41:28 +0100 |
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Mutt/1.11.3 (2019-02-01) |
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On Fri, Apr 05, 2019 at 08:32:13AM -0400, Devon Sean McCullough wrote:
> In MacOSX Emacs: Options > Set Default Font... > Fixed Width > Osaka
>
> The "Osaka" font is misplaced in the "Fixed Width" collection:
> spaces are narrower than letters and ->
> <- tab is three numerals wide.
> 0123456789
> Variable Width fonts shouldn’t be advertised as Fixed Width.
Unfortunately that font selection dialogue is a macOS feature, not an
Emacs one, so we’re not able to modify its behaviour. I can only
assume that the font incorrectly identifies itself as fixed width.
> P.S. Emacs shows characters like (insert ?\N{THUMBS UP SIGN}) 👍 as
> blank space - surely some sort of visible glyph, fallback font or
> highlight in the fashion of makefile-space would be better?
If you install Symbola (http://users.teilar.gr/~g1951d/) then it
should act as a fall‐back.
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Alan Third