Am 12.01.2011 10:35, schrieb Egbert Eich:
> Matthias Hopf writes:
>  > On Jan 11, 11 19:02:30 +0100, Krzysztof  elechowski wrote:
>  > > > the predefined font in my c.lsp is: "*lucidatypewriter-medium-r*-12-*"
>  > > >  xlsfonts "*lucidatypewriter-medium-r*-12-*"
>  > > The same at my side, and C language files display neatly as required.  
> The problem is with HTML.
>  > 
>  > xedit is using a seriously broken font setup for HTML, that is true. The
>  > "code" font is much too small (still readable in my place, so you have
>  > an additional issue).
>  > 
>  > Please report this upstream, we don't do anything special about xedit
>  > (heck, I guess it's the first time I ever actually run it knowingly).
>  > 
> 
> Point is, the patches that went into xedit over the past year were mostly
> build fixes. Paolo used to maintain it (he also was the author of the lisp
> interpreter) but he hasn't contributed anything for two years now. So xedit 
> is an x app that is more or less shipped as is.
> My fear is that if people raise too much hell upstream about it being broken
> it will become a more likely drop candidate.
> There are numerous much more powerful and better maintained editors around
> and and it may not be considered the HTML editor of choice by the vast
> majority of web developers.
> I certainly don't think the issue you are seeing has not been introduced
> recently as there have been no patches going in regarding fonts for quite
> a while.
> I suggest you use a different editor for html unless you would like to
> investigate and fix the issue yourself. I'm sure fixes are welcome upstream.
> 

I do not think that it is a matter of code. the lisp files use many different 
fonts.
It should be manageable to select a common font and make the stuff readable.
Fixing a broken default config is a no-op.

The missing documentation is also an issue but unrelated.

re,
 wh
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