From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Variable pitch text filling
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 16:10:00 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875ysft0l3.fsf@gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <837dcv2c2c.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 26 Nov 2021 17:04:11 +0200")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> To do this with a variable pitch text, you'd have to first fill a line
>> normally, and then go over the line and distribute some space pixels
>> everywhere (or just on spaces in the line). (This can (conveniently
>> enough) probably be done with the new `min-width' spec (if we're
>> distributing the extra pixels on all characters and not just the
>> spaces).)
>
> Since we will have spaces in the text from the filling, we could use
> the :width display spec on those space characters. There should be no
> need for min-width.
Yes, if we're distributing the extra space on the space characters only,
we can use space specs. But usually typesetters don't do that -- they
also distribute some of the space between other characters, too, to get
a more even "greyness". (Or whatever they call it -- it's been a few
years since I read up on typography last time.)
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Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-11-26 14:45 Variable pitch text filling Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-26 15:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 15:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2021-11-26 16:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 17:03 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-11-27 7:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-27 7:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 8:04 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-27 8:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 14:28 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-27 14:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-27 19:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 13:50 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 14:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 15:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 15:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 18:44 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 4:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 5:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 5:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 12:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 14:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 14:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 15:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 16:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 16:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 16:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 17:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 17:35 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 17:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 17:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 18:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 18:52 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 19:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 19:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 19:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 19:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 8:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-02 8:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 8:56 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-02 9:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 15:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-02 20:32 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-02 21:19 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-02 22:00 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-12-02 22:32 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-03 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 7:14 ` Po Lu
2021-12-03 18:15 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-03 18:53 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-03 0:41 ` Po Lu
2021-12-03 6:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 15:45 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 19:30 ` Jim Porter
2021-12-02 17:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 19:03 ` Yuan Fu
2021-12-02 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-02 20:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 8:17 ` Feng Shu
2021-12-03 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 11:55 ` Feng Shu
2021-12-03 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 8:51 ` Feng Shu
2021-12-03 11:35 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 11:44 ` Feng Shu
2021-12-03 11:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-03 11:47 ` Feng Shu
2021-12-03 15:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-03 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 0:35 ` Po Lu
2021-12-04 7:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 5:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-04 8:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-04 19:00 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-12-01 5:39 ` chad
2021-12-01 6:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-12-01 6:59 ` Yuri Khan
2021-12-01 18:14 ` john muhl
2021-11-29 13:46 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 14:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 14:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 14:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 14:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 14:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 14:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-29 18:44 ` Yuan Fu
2021-11-29 19:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-29 20:15 ` Yuan Fu
2021-11-26 16:47 ` Yuan Fu
2021-12-01 17:07 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-12-01 17:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-11-26 15:08 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-11-26 15:11 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-11-30 1:09 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
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