From: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enclosing text in a box
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:11:04 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP_d_8XBdin-NmzYcCCZaFg=Vy_kUrmJsvx1HPozL6CnqtOq_w@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <835yffgfwp.fsf@gnu.org>
On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 20:59, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> Using 'length' to measure the width of text on display is not
> reliable, because there are characters of different width. It is
> better to use 'string-width' or 'string-pixel-width' instead.
The next stumbling point is going to be “make-string does the wrong
thing when passed 17.237 as the count”, without an explanation as to
what the right thing would be. (I don’t know either.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-16 14:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-11-16 12:47 Enclosing text in a box Heime
2022-11-16 13:07 ` Heime
2022-11-16 13:34 ` Alexis Roda
2022-11-16 13:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 14:11 ` Yuri Khan [this message]
2022-11-16 14:20 ` Heime
2022-11-16 14:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 14:51 ` Heime
2022-11-16 14:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 20:56 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 16:48 ` Heime
2022-11-16 16:53 ` Heime
2022-11-16 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 19:35 ` Heime
2022-11-16 19:42 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 21:01 ` Heime
2022-11-16 20:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-16 20:55 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 14:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-18 15:10 ` tomas
2022-11-18 19:18 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 21:04 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-16 14:55 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 15:06 ` Yuri Khan
2022-11-16 16:12 ` tomas
2022-11-16 16:43 ` Heime
2022-11-17 6:43 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-17 6:57 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 19:11 ` Jean Louis
2022-11-21 12:53 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-11-18 16:20 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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