From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using proportional fonts in Gnus Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:56:33 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87wtdpmbbn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1145296661 31534 80.91.229.2 (17 Apr 2006 17:57:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 17 Apr 2006 17:57:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 17 19:57:40 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVXyi-0002kv-R8 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 19:57:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVXyi-0004RF-GS for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:57:36 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FVXxj-0003m5-Bz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:56:35 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FVXxi-0003lG-QM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FVXxi-0003l6-H9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:56:34 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FVXyP-0006Ki-Vl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:57:18 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FVXxh-0007T3-Iw; Mon, 17 Apr 2006 13:56:33 -0400 Original-To: Miles Bader In-reply-to: <87wtdpmbbn.fsf@catnip.gol.com> (message from Miles Bader on Mon, 17 Apr 2006 06:59:08 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:52967 Archived-At: For instance a "super tab" text property saying "align to colum N (or leave M units of whitespace if already there)"; maybe some degree of indirection would be useful so one need not rewrite the buffer text to change N dynamically. There could be a kind of alignment property which says "align the same as position P, plus OFFSET." (P would be a marker.) Once we have the long-requested functions to compute columns in pixels, this would be easy to implement.