From: Matthias Lederhofer <matled@gmx.net>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 07:57:39 GMT
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gitweb.css: Courer fonts for commits and tree-diff
Message-ID: <E1G0w4p-0007c9-O3@moooo.ath.cx>
In-Reply-To: <20060712174610.71046.qmail@web31810.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Luben Tuikov <ltuikov@yahoo.com> wrote:
> --- 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