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Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less
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tomas |
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Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less |
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Wed, 14 Oct 2020 11:14:27 +0200 |
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On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 04:30:48AM -0400, James Cloos wrote:
> >>>>> "LI" == Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
>
> LI> There seemed to be some claims that even totally numerical elements
> LI> (that doesn't change the number of digits) also leads to shifts that'll
> LI> have to be handled (like display-time-mode), and that just isn't lining
> LI> up with my experiences.
>
> Opentype offers both fixed width and proportional digits (not to mention
> oldstyle).
Fixed width digits do make sense: often you want more than just aligning
a numerical "field" -- you'd like the individual digits to align. This
is an issue at least as old as Metafont (at least whithin our digital
bubble, I'm sure the lead-and-ink typesetters were well aware of that!).
Let's call those fonts the "normal" fonts (with a tip off the hat to
Russel's paradox ;-)
The question here is whether there is a space the width of a digit (for
"normal fonts", that is).
It seems Unicode has a place for that: U+2007 aka FIGURE SPACE. Whether
those fonts implement that is left as an exercise...
Me? I use fixed fonts on-screen. Actually my eyes very much prefer them.
This might be the result of acclimatisation.
Cheers
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- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Juri Linkov, 2020/10/13
- RE: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Drew Adams, 2020/10/13
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/14
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2020/10/14
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/14
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Protesilaos Stavrou, 2020/10/14
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2020/10/14
- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, James Cloos, 2020/10/14
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- Re: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Juri Linkov, 2020/10/14
- RE: How to make Emacs popular again: Use monospaced fonts less, Drew Adams, 2020/10/14
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