From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
Cc: cpardo@imayhem.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Drawing UI elements behind text
Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 20:44:00 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <86a5e7kjyn.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51478cef-3d2b-07bc-797d-ae80ab6e20d2@gmail.com> (message from Jim Porter on Sun, 10 Nov 2024 10:09:04 -0800)
> Date: Sun, 10 Nov 2024 10:09:04 -0800
> From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
>
> On 11/10/2024 8:39 AM, Cecilio Pardo wrote:
> > Is there any other feature that could be implemented like this? Not just
> > by segments, but by any graphics drawn behind the text, vectors or
> > bitmap.
>
> It's not "behind" text, but with some work on setting per-line fill
> widths, you could perhaps use this in EWW to display images alongside
> text (like with the "float: right" CSS rule).
Given the right Lisp API (which is not easy to come up with, AFAIR),
this can be done today, because Emacs already knows how to show only a
part of an image on a screen line. So we need a way to tell Emacs
"split this image's display between these N lines".
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-11-10 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-11-10 16:39 Drawing UI elements behind text Cecilio Pardo
2024-11-10 18:09 ` Jim Porter
2024-11-10 18:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-11-10 19:06 ` Jim Porter
2024-11-10 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-11-10 19:29 ` Jim Porter
2024-11-10 19:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
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