Re: Question on fonts

[T.V Raman]

we're talking across one another.

I did not suggest a change in core emacs, I suggested that someone
interested in helping users ease into emacs could write up a set of
font choices that work in a given situation. Let's close this thread.
Eli Zaretskii writes:
 > > From: "T.V Raman" <address@hidden>
 > > Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2020 08:47:44 -0800
 > > Cc: address@hidden,
 > >     address@hidden,
 > >     address@hidden,
 > >     address@hidden
 > > 
 > > More precisely, my question was in the context of helping users choose
 > > a font that is best suited to their needs --- the task is likely
 > > something that can be achieved by someone with  the
 > > interest/motivation creating an appropriate theme.
 > 
 > So you did mean a more general question.
 > 
 > In that case, I don't see how we could do a better job than we already
 > have in fontest.el.  The problem here is that (a) we cannot know which
 > fonts are installed on the end-user's machine, and (b) many fonts that
 > people so like to use and advertise aren't free, so we don't want to
 > promote them by including them in our fontest.  And on top of all
 > that, there's the personal preferences of each user, which IME are
 > quite different.

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