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: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 10:04:51 +0200 Message-ID: <83lgf0uzj0.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <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> <838tb5rxoe.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf5q73p.fsf@gnu.org> <4742f0ae-86b5-48f9-4601-4dbba9e6380d@gmail.com> <83bmfzreaq.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf3przh.fsf@gnu.org> <42d0c18b-8d14-bfe2-8f09-112787e8b0b4@gmail.com> <83zi3io9tr.fsf@gnu.org> <859ec725-acc3-22e4-ca26-28108c3e5e26@gmail.com> <83sh9ao086.fsf@gnu.org> <83muzhodkx.fsf@gnu.org> <9e7e6fa1-47d8-c0a2-797d-cd7edbf8fc4c@gmail.com> <83po4duevh.fsf@gnu.org> <5f2077f1-bc8b-6b66-8231-4015199effa4@gmail.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520669029 12286 195.159.176.226 (10 Mar 2018 08:03:49 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 08:03:49 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 10 09:03:44 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 1euZTk-000377-9C for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 09:03:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49549 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euZVn-0005sW-7Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:05:51 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50224) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euZV5-0005s6-QZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:05:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euZV1-00007t-SF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:05:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:52125) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1euZUp-0008VI-H2; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:04:51 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2504 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1euZUo-0005mc-Sf; Sat, 10 Mar 2018 03:04:51 -0500 In-reply-to: <5f2077f1-bc8b-6b66-8231-4015199effa4@gmail.com> (message from =?utf-8?Q?Cl=C3=A9ment?= Pit-Claudel on Fri, 9 Mar 2018 17:54:11 -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:223572 Archived-At: > Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, eggert@cs.ucla.edu > From: Clément Pit-Claudel > Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 17:54:11 -0500 > > >>> IME, indentation of text in word processors I use does not depend on > >>> previous lines at all. > >> > >> Except in lists, right? > > > > No, in lists as well. > > I don't understand: in the example below, the widths of the bullets and the numbers (i, ii, …) affects the indentation of the following lines, right? No, it doesn't. It surprised me to see that in MS Word, but the evidence is clear. Not sure we should follow suit, but it does tell us how far this could be taken. > In any case, I agree it's a fairly limited issue. I don't think it matters much. Agreed.