Comment 24 for bug 791076

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Barry Warsaw (barry) wrote : Re: [Bug 791076] Re: Emacs: choosing normal monospace font in Emacs but gives bold-italic

On Jun 17, 2011, at 06:44 AM, Vincent Ladeuil wrote:

>@paul: Ok, after reading bug #727733 I realised I've been out of the
>loop.
>
>My preference was for Ubuntu Mono Beta 21 but I understand why this
>wasn't the chosen one.
>
>I'm currently trying:
> 79 lines with "-unknown-UbuntuBeta Mono-normal-normal-*-13-*-*-*-*-0-iso10646-1"
>
>It's a bit small and less pleasing than Beta 21, but still good enough
>for daily use (did I mention I love this font ?).
>
>I wish there was an easy way to override some simple setting to reduce
>the line spacing. I fully understand this may get ugly if I ever try to
>display accented capitals but since I almost never encounter this case I
>don't really care ;)
>
>Unless you tell me there could be such a trick, I'll leave it at that.

I'm with you Vila, though I really liked the squashed look of 17 best :).
I've taken to bumping up to 14 point, which loses some vertical space. It
seems a good trade-off though since this is such a pleasant font to code with.

-B