Re: LaTeX-Fill-Paragraph and inline images

["Felix E. Klee" <felix.klee.news@gmx.net>]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

>> Could you please repost your message?
> 
> Here are the messages I still have on my server:
> They're not in gmane either, so maybe they never left my newsserver
> :-( Has anybody else seen them ?

The second one is available on my newsserver, the first one is not.

>>>> Therefore, I'm looking for a LaTeX-Fill-Paragraph replacement that
>>>> breaks lines correctly when inline images are used. Instead of
>>>> specifying a fill column the user would specify the desired width
>>>> of paragraphs in pixels or centimeters. This might also be
>>>> interesting when using variable width fonts instead of fixed width
>>>> fonts.
> 
> That would be neat, but nobody has written the code to do it yet.
> I don't think it can be done in elisp right now, so we first need
> some C code (exported to elisp) so that you can determine pixel
> positioning.

Well, getting the width of a character can probably easily be done (on 
X11 based systems) by accessing the XFontStruct structure with a small 
C module. More powerful, though, would be something like compute-motion 
that works with pixels instead of lines and columns.

> I know someone has started work on it, but help is still welcome,

Maybe I'll try out that XFontStruct thing just for fun, but probably not 
too soon.

Felix

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