Re: customizing Org for legibility

[Diego Zamboni <diego@zzamboni.org>]

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Hi,

I think it's a noble effort to popularize org-mode and to make it easier to
use. And I learned today about mixed-pitch :)

However, a lot of visual configuration depends on fonts, colors, and other
things which may vary a lot between users. While most of us by now probably
use a graphical version of Emacs, any such default settings should be done
with care for users who still use Emacs on a pure-text interface.

Making some default prettification as part of Spacemacs's org-mode layer
would be nice, since it includes a lot of customization and eye candy
already.

In case it's of use or for reference, I wrote a "Beautifying org-mode" blog
post some time ago: https://zzamboni.org/post/beautifying-org-mode-in-emacs/

(the corresponding section of my config file is here:
https://github.com/zzamboni/dot-emacs/blob/master/init.org#beautifying-org-mode
)

All the best,
--Diego



On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 10:35 AM Texas Cyberthal <texas.cyberthal@gmail.com>
wrote:

> I aim to popularize Spacemacs as a personal info manager. Next task is
> the Org configuration layer.
>
> As preparation, I wrote a post critiquing Org's out-of-the-box
> legibility. I believe a default configuration should cater to
> beginners, since they're least likely to know how to customize. On the
> other hand, maybe a package should set defaults to the median user and
> leave beginner intake to distributions.
>
> Along the way, I discovered mixed-pitch, which fixed most of my
> complaint. It's quite obscure. I'd like to include it in Spacemacs'
> Org layer.
>
> I'm sharing my thoughts to see whether I'm missing anything else.
>
> https://cyberthal-ghost.nfshost.com/configuring-org-for-readable-prose-is-too-complicated/
>
>

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