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| author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-07-15 15:34:03 +0300 |
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| committer | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> | 2017-07-15 15:34:03 +0300 |
| commit | a5c4ffdb6e1fe37c5c060b4a4181e5ee79f71ec6 (patch) | |
| tree | cc4ffa644a21843f979009e84e51ff324479290c /lisp/faces.el | |
| parent | cc78d5339ce8b9c2c5bf38b89fa9ea3ba748fdd4 (diff) | |
| download | emacs-a5c4ffdb6e1fe37c5c060b4a4181e5ee79f71ec6.tar.gz | |
Improve comments in faces.el
* lisp/faces.el (face-font-family-alternatives): Improve
commentary.
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lisp/faces.el b/lisp/faces.el index c3693d16631..97c32165b9c 100644 --- a/lisp/faces.el +++ b/lisp/faces.el @@ -102,11 +102,16 @@ a font height that isn't optimal." ;; Monospace Serif is an Emacs invention, intended to work around ;; portability problems when using Courier. It should work well ;; when combined with Monospaced and with other standard fonts. + ;; One of its uses is for 'tex-verbatim' and 'Info-quoted' faces, + ;; so the result must be different from the default face's font, + ;; and must be monospaced. ("Monospace Serif" ;; This looks good on GNU/Linux. "Courier 10 Pitch" - ;; This looks good on MS-Windows and OS X. + ;; This looks good on MS-Windows and OS X. Note that this is + ;; actually a sans-serif font, but it's here for lack of a better + ;; alternative. "Consolas" ;; This looks good on macOS. "Courier" looks good too, but is ;; jagged on GNU/Linux and so is listed later as "courier". |