From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 23:18:42 +0200 Message-ID: <83po4duevh.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> <83vaeas8uz.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf6s3aa.fsf@gnu.org> <838tb5rxoe.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf5q73p.fsf@gnu.org> <4742f0ae-86b5-48f9-4601-4dbba9e6380d@gmail.com> <83bmfzreaq.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf3przh.fsf@gnu.org> <42d0c18b-8d14-bfe2-8f09-112787e8b0b4@gmail.com> <83zi3io9tr.fsf@gnu.org> <859ec725-acc3-22e4-ca26-28108c3e5e26@gmail.com> <83sh9ao086.fsf@gnu.org> <83muzhodkx.fsf@gnu.org> <9e7e6fa1-47d8-c0a2-797d-cd7edbf8fc4c@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520630217 10400 195.159.176.226 (9 Mar 2018 21:16:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 21:16:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 09 22:16:53 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1euPNk-0002dB-8V for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 22:16:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:48117 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euPPm-0008D0-Gk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:18:58 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:59478) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euPPe-0008Cp-LT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:18:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euPPd-000564-S2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:18:50 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:44196) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euPPY-00053K-DX; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:18:44 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2103 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1euPPX-0000W9-Qz; Fri, 09 Mar 2018 16:18:44 -0500 In-reply-to: <9e7e6fa1-47d8-c0a2-797d-cd7edbf8fc4c@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Fri, 9 Mar 2018 14:48:33 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223558 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu > From: Clément Pit-Claudel > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 14:48:33 -0500 > > > IME, indentation of text in word processors I use does not depend on > > previous lines at all. > > Except in lists, right? No, in lists as well. > For example it's not uncommon to wrap like this: > > * Some long text here > that wraps around: > > i. Point 1 > … continued > ii. Point 2 > … continued > iii. Point 3 > … continued What I meant was that if you, for example, enlarge the font, the indentation doesn't get larger in pixels. (I'm not sure we should follow that extreme example, but it does drive the point home, I think.)