From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Support paragraph-local tab stops
Date: Wed, 27 May 2020 18:29:08 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83a71ttn0b.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EFF00C39-4AA4-4623-B20C-F297226D00BC@gmail.com> (message from Yuan Fu on Tue, 26 May 2020 19:26:01 -0400)
> From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 19:26:01 -0400
>
> As show above, the second table has longer tab stops since they have longer headers.
>
> In Emacs, both table would have to use long tab stops, and the first table with short headers would waste a lot of space. In order to set proper tab stops, you have to go through the whole buffer and use the longest header for each column.
>
> Word processors doesn’t have this problem because they have paragraph-local tab stops, so each table can have their own tabs stops. I wonder if Emacs can do the same. Can we add a text property that points to a list that specifies the tabs stops to use? Is that possible?
IMO, TAB stops are not the right tool for the job here. You need to
use the :align-to display property, which allows to align text with
pixel granularity.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-05-27 15:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-05-26 23:26 Support paragraph-local tab stops Yuan Fu
2020-05-27 0:27 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-27 15:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2020-05-27 15:48 ` Yuan Fu
2020-05-27 16:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-05-27 16:51 ` Yuan Fu
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