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> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2014 14:57:39 -0400
> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> What I would like to see is a feature to enhance Emacs's ability
> to display formatted documents.  For instance, making indentation
> work in terms of fractions of characters, so we can display properly
> aligned tables with variable-with fonts.

Isn't this already possible with ':align-to' display specs?  See the
nodes "Specified Space" and "Pixel Specification" in the ELisp manual.