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Re: [PATCH] gitweb.css: Courer fonts for commits and tree-diff

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MLMatthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
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Jul 13, 2006, 07:57 UTC
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Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> wrote:
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> --- Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net> wrote:
> > But if I really have to, I would say this makes things uglier
> > and less readable.  Maybe asking for monospace is less yucky but
> > naming Courier explicitly?
> 
> Sometimes people would put ASCII art in their commit messages,
> things like a simple table, compiler output, log output, etc,
> and I wanted to _preserve_ the intent of such output.  This is why
> I changed it to Courier. (sorry for the misspelling of Courier)

monospace should do this too, see[1]. I think it should be added as fallback[2] at least but I see no reason not to use font-family: monospace.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#monospace-def [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/fonts.html#generic-font-families

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  1. gitweb.css: Courer fonts for commits and tree-diffLuben Tuikov, Jul 12, 2006
  2. Junio C HamanoJul 12, 2006
  3. Luben TuikovJul 12, 2006
  4. Matthias LederhoferJul 13, 2006

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