From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 22:29:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fwq4qrma.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=frZOg1HBat0K57VEGWOwwiYi0t9O9yjHVroXU@mail.gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:49:48 -0700
> From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
>
> > Not necessarily. In Emacs, we can specify that text be displayed
> > aligned to a specific width in pixels. See the node "Specified Space"
> > in the ELisp manual. Perhaps display of programming languages could
> > use this feature to align program source even with proportional fonts.
>
> Something like the rule "after a string of two or more whitespace
> characters, position the next character as if the preceeding text on
> that line was monospaced"?
Yes, not unlike what we do with font-lock.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-30 20:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-28 16:22 Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23 Erin Brinkley
2011-03-28 18:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-28 18:30 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1301337042.1646.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-28 23:58 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-29 2:00 ` rusi
2011-03-29 19:28 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-30 2:47 ` rusi
2011-03-30 8:33 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-30 13:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-30 15:20 ` rusi
2011-03-30 15:53 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-30 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-30 19:49 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-30 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.8.1301508895.9824.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-31 4:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-31 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.13.1301596981.19576.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-31 19:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-31 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-01 17:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-30 16:42 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-03-30 9:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] <mailman.0.1301334352.1646.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-28 23:01 ` Xah Lee
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