From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tassilo Horn Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:30:20 +0200 Message-ID: <87pqpb5c8z.fsf@member.fsf.org> References: <898836.13190.qm@web121803.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1301337116 15735 80.91.229.12 (28 Mar 2011 18:31:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:31:56 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Mar 28 20:31:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HED-0006Le-E4 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:31:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47539 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4HEC-0004Pc-No for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:31:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49522 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Q4HD4-0004Nw-MF for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:30:41 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HD2-00029q-Vp for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:30:38 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:41766) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HD2-00029e-PV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:30:36 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Q4HCz-0005oB-Bk for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:30:33 +0200 Original-Received: from 88-134-173-46-dynip.superkabel.de ([88.134.173.46]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:30:33 +0200 Original-Received: from tassilo by 88-134-173-46-dynip.superkabel.de with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:30:33 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 88-134-173-46-dynip.superkabel.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.9999 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:GEuNvqza6OH16wY1xOpuOZz7RfQ= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 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: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:80489 Archived-At: Erin Brinkley writes: Hi Erin, > I'm using Emacs 23 now and LOVE using proportional fonts! (AKA > variable width fonts.) It FINALLY makes Emacs look beautiful, makes > text easy to read. That's a purely subjective feeling. ;-) > But I discovered a huge problem: the fill and word wrap commands are > hard coded to work for monospaced fonts only! They are not hard-coded to specific fonts. `fill-paragraph' (M-q) means "reformat the current paragraph in such a way that all lines are at most `fill-column' columns long". What you seem to expect was something like "fill to pixel width". Of course, that doesn't make sense with real, physical linebreaks. But there's `visual-line-mode', which performs line wrapping only on the display level, without changing the file. ,----[ (info "(emacs)Visual Line Mode") ] | Another alternative to ordinary line continuation is to use "word | wrap". Here, each long logical line is divided into two or more screen | lines, like in ordinary line continuation. However, Emacs attempts to | wrap the line at word boundaries near the right window edge. This | makes the text easier to read, as wrapping does not occur in the middle | of words. `---- Bye, Tassilo