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From: Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com>
To: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Variable pitch text filling
Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 08:47:12 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E8314334-70F6-41C4-A0AE-BE1A5D7B208B@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875ysft0l3.fsf@gnus.org>


> 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.)

I think they call it “color”. Typography people surely know how to name things. And what you described seems to be tracking, ie, altering the space between individual characters.

Yuan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-11-26 16:47 UTC|newest]

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
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 [this message]
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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