From: Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>
To: hairryharry <hairryharry@tesco.net>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Calendar & proportional fonts
Date: Sun, 30 Sep 2012 22:00:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3EA7B5F2-B2C6-4088-86FA-63814FF13BAC@Web.DE> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50683C8C.8010707@tesco.net>
Am 30.09.2012 um 14:35 schrieb hairryharry:
> Any ideas or pointers would be gratefully received.
Maybe the Emacs Lisp Manual offers some pointers how to position characters by a fraction of character width.
Does it help to assume that GNU Emacs is not a graphical editor but works character oriented?
Leave it fixed width fonts! Then it's easier to understand why GNU Emacs offers functions to operate on columns of text.
In last millennium there was a time when you could find in the category "state-of-the-art" alpha-numerical text terminals which offered on 25 different lines space for exactly 80 characters. No-one more, no-one less. And each character the same size. That's the time when the GNU Emacs his or her story started. And that's the time when you could buy mechanical typewriters. See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typewriter
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Greetings
Pete
Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
– Allen's Law
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2012-09-30 12:35 Calendar & proportional fonts hairryharry
2012-09-30 20:00 ` Peter Dyballa [this message]
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2012-09-30 19:10 ` B. T. Raven
2012-09-30 20:23 ` hairryharry
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