Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]

Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]

[Texas Cyberthal]

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

Re: Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]

[Adam Porter]

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.

Re: Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]

[Bastien]

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

Re: Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]

[Samuel Wales]

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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Re: Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]

[Texas Cyberthal]

#+begin_quote Bastien
> 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.
#+end_quote

Why does there need to be an Org version of mixed-pitch-mode? It
already works for Org.

https://gitlab.com/jabranham/mixed-pitch

Re: Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]

[Bastien]

Hi Texas,

Texas Cyberthal <texas.cyberthal@gmail.com> writes:

> Why does there need to be an Org version of mixed-pitch-mode? It
> already works for Org.

Yes, indeed.

PS: Speaking of good defaults, I think quoting emails with ">"
instead of #+begin_quote is way more readable.

-- 
 Bastien

Re: Fixed vs variable pitch font [legibility 4/6]

[Joost Kremers]

On Tue, Feb 11 2020, Bastien wrote:
> Hi Texas,
>
> Texas Cyberthal <texas.cyberthal@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Why does there need to be an Org version of mixed-pitch-mode? 
>> It
>> already works for Org.
>
> Yes, indeed.

Besides, there's also `org-variable-pitch`, available on Melpa.

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