bug#24597: 25.1; Fonts used by default in Info

[Stefan Kangas]

fixed 24597 26.1
close 24597
quit

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> Date: Mon, 3 Oct 2016 09:35:53 -0700 (PDT)
>> From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Cc: 24597@debbugs.gnu.org
>>
>> > > Why use, by default, two **slightly** different looking fonts?  They are
>> > > not different enough to make ‘...’ very noticeable.  Nor are they the
>> > > same.  What's the point of this choice?
>> >
>> > The point is exactly to have a different face for symbols.
>>
>> I don't disagree with that point.
>>
>> What's the point of using family Courier for one and Courier New for
>> the other?  That's the question.  Doesn't seem like a great choice.
>
> I believe we don't specify Courier, it's just what Emacs picks up on a
> typical Windows machine when we ask for a "Monospace Serif" font.  See
> the definition of the Info-quoted face in info.el.

I believe that this was fixed in:

commit 36906806ccfc0e53f1d8c365ab0d7151288b7833
Author: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date:   Fri May 13 13:30:33 2016 -0700

    Improve display of tex-verbatim and Info quoted

Which was part of Emacs 26.1.  I'm therefore closing this bug as such.

Best regards,
Stefan Kangas