From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 19:12:50 +0200 Message-ID: <83fu5brer1.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> <83vaeas8uz.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf6s3aa.fsf@gnu.org> <8b94336f-1bb4-84ab-263b-af5ba40bfca4@cs.ucla.edu> <673d6612-f0d4-5d34-c6ee-a276dbba3068@cs.ucla.edu> <836069rxfw.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520443081 16959 195.159.176.226 (7 Mar 2018 17:18:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 7 Mar 2018 17:18:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: sds@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 07 18:17:56 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etchC-0002Cq-Mx for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 18:17:42 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34556 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etcjF-0006la-4v for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:19:49 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56569) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etccf-00016P-Ov for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:13:07 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etccf-0002Dp-3r for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:13:01 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:42708) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etccb-00029t-Eq; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:12:57 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2818 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etcca-0000R0-SO; Wed, 07 Mar 2018 12:12:57 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Sam Steingold on Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:53:54 -0500) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223410 Archived-At: > From: Sam Steingold > Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:53:54 -0500 > > > * Daniel Colascione [2018-03-06 08:38:28 -0800]: > > > >> ... > > > > How would you serialize the result? > > This is actually the question that bothers me too. > I think we need to separate "visual" indentation for word processing > from "semantic" indentation for coding. > The former should be serialized to something like HTML or LaTeX, > and the latter to plain text as it is done now. Take a look at enriched.el (and etc/enriched.txt as the demonstration of its capabilities): we already have the capability for serializing this, had it for many years.