* Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]
@ 2020-02-04 4:09 Texas Cyberthal
2020-02-04 7:27 ` Adam Porter
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From: Texas Cyberthal @ 2020-02-04 4:09 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Readable prose requires variable-pitch font. Readable code requires
fixed-pitch font. Org should make it easy to configure the two
separately.
mixed-pitch-mode mostly solves this problem, but only advanced users
know about it.
https://gitlab.com/jabranham/mixed-pitch
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* Re: Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]
2020-02-04 4:09 Texas Cyberthal
@ 2020-02-04 7:27 ` Adam Porter
2020-02-10 7:06 ` Bastien
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From: Adam Porter @ 2020-02-04 7:27 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: emacs-orgmode
Texas Cyberthal <texas.cyberthal@gmail.com> writes:
> Readable prose requires variable-pitch font. Readable code requires
> fixed-pitch font. Org should make it easy to configure the two
> separately.
>
> mixed-pitch-mode mostly solves this problem, but only advanced users
> know about it.
> https://gitlab.com/jabranham/mixed-pitch
I also prefer proportional fonts for prose in Org buffers, and I
configured my face settings accordingly a long time ago.
However, it is not necessarily so that proportional fonts are required
for prose. Great works have been written on typewriters for many
years. As well, Emacs/Org are not necessarily aimed at prose writing
more than other uses, and changing the default would probably be
off-putting to many existing users, so the default probably should not
be changed.
Having said that, if Org could have a simple org-mixed-pitch-mode, or
something like that, that could be very helpful, since it could make
such configuration much easier. Maybe one could be written to use
face-remapping, which shouldn't take much code.
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* Re: Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]
2020-02-04 7:27 ` Adam Porter
@ 2020-02-10 7:06 ` Bastien
2020-02-10 20:54 ` Samuel Wales
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From: Bastien @ 2020-02-10 7:06 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Adam Porter; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
> Having said that, if Org could have a simple org-mixed-pitch-mode, or
> something like that, that could be very helpful, since it could make
> such configuration much easier.
If anyone wants to start coding something like this, we can consider
referencing it on Worg.
--
Bastien
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* Re: Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]
2020-02-10 7:06 ` Bastien
@ 2020-02-10 20:54 ` Samuel Wales
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From: Samuel Wales @ 2020-02-10 20:54 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Bastien; +Cc: Adam Porter, emacs-orgmode
i think this is a really good idea.
there are subtleties including:
- list bullets (fixed is good for aligning succeeding lines)
- timestamps (many align these informally or in headers)
- numbers (many align these informally -- but .,-+'?)
- todo kw (defined by user, would be fantastic to be variable, but
some users do such things as making them be 4 characters and aligning
them in sibling headers; i think the org main page does this)
- table subtleties
- agenda subject lines (requires a change in org itself that makes
headers and tags individually definable faces so rhs is by default
variable but settable not to be, perhaps as part of a change making
columns in agenda individually definable for non-pitch reasons)
On 2/10/20, Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> wrote:
> Adam Porter <adam@alphapapa.net> writes:
>
>> Having said that, if Org could have a simple org-mixed-pitch-mode, or
>> something like that, that could be very helpful, since it could make
>> such configuration much easier.
>
> If anyone wants to start coding something like this, we can consider
> referencing it on Worg.
>
> --
> Bastien
>
>
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