Hi Samuel,

Agree, I have started using variable pitch in org-mode and it has made it much more enjoyable.

I recently documented my configuration here: http://zzamboni.org/post/beautifying-org-mode-in-emacs/ <http://zzamboni.org/post/beautifying-org-mode-in-emacs/>

About your point (1.3), I have source blocks set to fixed-pitch by configuring the “org-block” face, works well.

Best,
—Diego



> On 8 Apr 2018, at 21:08, Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On 4/8/18, Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> wrote:
>> I have been wanting to clean up org-faces.el for a couple of years.
> 
> thanks.
> 
> fwiw on variable pitch.
> 
> i find that variable pitch reads legibly.  is efficient with
> horizontal space, and looks great.  it also makes the mode
> line short.  took a few days to get used to, then it got awesome.  i
> will never go back.
> 
> in my .emacs i made tables, example block contents, and
> timestamps be fixed-pitch.  you want those to align.
> 
> it works great in org.
> 
> the only issues i have found in org are:
> 
>  1) these items do not seem to have their own face and thus
>     cannot yet be made to be fixed pitch:
>     1) list bullets
>     2) the spaces before list items and contents
>     3) source block contents
>     4) numbers and number components like .-,+
>  2) tags do not get aligned to the same window-pixel
>  3) by default, c-c ' does not run prog-mode hooks where necessary to
> turn it off.  or something.  trivial workaround is setting mode in the
> block.  so not really a problem.
> 
> 
> samuel
>