Re: min-width display property, but with padding at the start

[Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>]

On 8/20/2024 6:28 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> That is probably what I'll do if I can't find another solution, but
>> doing it with display properties works with non-fixed-width characters
>> and faces, which a user might have configured.
[snip]
> Are there many people who use variable-pitch fonts on the mode line?

For what it's worth, I could see 'visual-wrap-line-mode' + SHR/EWW using 
this. If I make an ordered list like so,

   1. Here is
      some text
   2. Here is
      some more
   ...
   10. Here is
       even more

the two-digit items won't line up. It's not hard to compute the max 
number of characters for the numbers, but then you'd end up with:

   1.  Here is
       some text
   ...
   10. Here is
       even more

It'd be nice to right-align the numbers. As you mention up-thread, we 
could do this today via 'format', but that only works because SHR 
currently uses a fixed-pitch font for item numbers no matter what. (I'd 
like to change that so the fonts in EWW are consistent.)

That's not to say we need to add this feature; but if it existed 
already, I'd probably be tinkering with it right now. :)