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From: "Loris Bennett" <loris.bennett@fu-berlin.de>
Subject: Re: org-indent-mode sans-serif font support
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 10:12:25 +0100
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onguarde <onguarde@gmail.com> writes:

> org-indent-mode doesn't work well except on monospaced font. 
> Is there a way around this?

I don't think any form of indentation in Emacs with a non-monospaced
font is going to work properly.

> I want to use Arial font. (sans-serif font)
> But with org-indent-mode, the body and entry indents are misaligned, 
> This is very apparent at higher indent levels.

There are several nice sans-serif monospaced fonts, such as Lucida Sans
Typwriter, DejaVu Sans Mono, or Liberation Mono.  In my .emacs I have
the following

,---------------------------------------------------------------------------
| (set-face-attribute 'default nil :font "Liberation Mono-12" :weight 'bold)
`---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cheers,

Loris

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