From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Adam Porter Subject: Re: Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6] Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 01:27:40 -0600 Message-ID: <87o8ueyfpv.fsf@alphapapa.net> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:56547) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1iysch-0006ou-Gh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2020 02:27:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iyscg-0007uz-FE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2020 02:27:51 -0500 Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([159.69.161.202]:43606) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1iyscg-0007qi-8v for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2020 02:27:50 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1iysce-000LqG-Mi for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Tue, 04 Feb 2020 08:27:48 +0100 List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Texas Cyberthal 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.