From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question on Mule and Makor2, font display vs char input? Date: Fri, 03 Dec 2004 10:30:45 +0200 Message-ID: <01c4d912$Blat.v2.2.2$87ff22e0@zahav.net.il> References: <87u0r754pw.fsf@access4less.net> <01c4d7d3$Blat.v2.2.2$e02970a0@zahav.net.il> <01c4d82a$Blat.v2.2.2$4ebaaf60@zahav.net.il> <01c4d897$Blat.v2.2.2$e8559280@zahav.net.il> <01c4d89c$Blat.v2.2.2$4f616fe0@zahav.net.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1102062902 17882 80.91.229.6 (3 Dec 2004 08:35:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2004 08:35:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Dec 03 09:34:56 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1Ca8u0-0007GR-00 for ; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 09:34:56 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Ca93a-00075H-MB for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:44:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Ca93C-000752-6A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:44:26 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1Ca938-00074S-Qe for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:44:23 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1Ca938-00074P-F2 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:44:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.15] (helo=balder.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1Ca8tD-0005Qn-AT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 03 Dec 2004 03:34:07 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-205-134.inter.net.il [80.230.205.134]) by balder.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id DWU32044 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 3 Dec 2004 10:34:04 +0200 (IST) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: (message from Joe Corneli on Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:38:19 -0600) X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22534 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22534 > From: Joe Corneli > Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 14:38:19 -0600 > > Why? What does it matter how the character's glyph is generated, if > in the end you see the same shape? > > I'm just not a fan of using images files for text. They're typically > slow to render, and they don't typically look very good. We have an > extended character set available that has the potential to make > editing math (etc.) seemlessly integrated with editing normal text, > and moreover this can be done with no outside dependencies. LaTeX is not only about characters, it's a word processor, so it doesn't make much sense (IMHO) to render only part of the text it is supposed to produce in print, and leave the rest as \directives. Anyway, to answer your original question whether there's a customizable display feature that can display a string instead of another string, then no, there's no such feature. Overlays is the infrastructure on which one could build such a feature (you can look, e.g., at glasses.el for an example of doing that), but I think you will need to write some Lisp to implement that, customizations alone will not suffice.