From: "Clément Pit-Claudel" <cpitclaudel@gmail.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unicode combining characters
Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 14:15:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2437db42-62fc-ea3c-279b-170152defc62@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83k0nmbubk.fsf@gnu.org>
On 5/25/21 1:24 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Anand Tamariya <atamariya@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 25 May 2021 21:26:44 +0530
>>
>> Hindi Devanagari script has lot of unicode combining characters which results in misalignment in a
>> rectangular overlay for constant number of characters (screenshot )
>> What would be a recommended way to tackle this in Emacs?
>
> Use align-to 'space' display spec and/or the window-text-pixel-size
> function, which will account for the actual size of the text on
> display.
Will this work? The misaligned specs are already part of a replacing dipsplay spec, so the additional align-to would be ignored, no?
(IIRC, there is no way to say "replace this text by this string followed by this specified space; it's one or the other, right?)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-25 18:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-05-25 15:56 Unicode combining characters Anand Tamariya
2021-05-25 17:22 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-05-25 17:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 18:15 ` Clément Pit-Claudel [this message]
2021-05-25 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-25 19:30 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-05-25 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-26 9:51 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-05-26 10:04 ` Joost Kremers
2021-05-26 12:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-26 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-27 7:00 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-05-27 9:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-27 10:34 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-05-27 12:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-05-27 13:27 ` Anand Tamariya
2021-05-27 13:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
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