From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Display of em dashes in our documentation Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2021 11:00:24 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <87ily5jomf.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <4209edd83cfee7c84b2d75ebfcd38784fa21b23c.camel@crossproduct.net> <87o885tyle.fsf@db48x.net> <83k0it6lu5.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0isu7hz.fsf_-_@db48x.net> <87a6jotszy.fsf@db48x.net> <877der8smr.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <83y2772y0s.fsf@gnu.org> <83sfxd1g05.fsf@gnu.org> <83tuhtyn46.fsf@gnu.org> <83o880zuxs.fsf@gnu.org> <838rz4ypkt.fsf@gnu.org> <83o87zxzql.fsf@gnu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="15915"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, db48x@db48x.net, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, Eli Zaretskii , yuri.v.khan@gmail.com To: Stefan Kangas Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 10 10:26:21 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mZUA1-0003y1-Dd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2021 10:26:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57756 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZUA0-0001lB-GD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2021 04:26:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:42918) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZU8F-0007SI-CF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 10 Oct 2021 04:24:34 -0400 Original-Received: from relay1-d.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.183.193]:2643) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mZU8C-0006NN-6Z; Sun, 10 Oct 2021 04:24:31 -0400 Original-Received: (Authenticated sender: juri@linkov.net) by relay1-d.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 50ED8240003; Sun, 10 Oct 2021 08:24:18 +0000 (UTC) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Kangas's message of "Fri, 8 Oct 2021 13:17:07 -0400") Received-SPF: pass client-ip=217.70.183.193; envelope-from=juri@linkov.net; helo=relay1-d.mail.gandi.net X-Spam_score_int: -25 X-Spam_score: -2.6 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_H3=0.001, RCVD_IN_MSPIKE_WL=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276641 Archived-At: >> What will that do to byte offsets in Info tag tables? I'd rather >> avoid modifying the buffer contents. > > What do you mean by "byte-offsets in Info tag tables"? Do you mean that > this approach risks leaving a table misaligned? If so, I think that is > correct, and clearly a drawback. I don't see an easy way around it with > this approach (but I also don't see a scenario when you would properly > use an em dash in a table). You can put a string with spaces using the ‘display’ text property over the em-dash char the same way as Info-hide-note-references is implemented.