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: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 22:18:37 +0200 Message-ID: <83o9k1q7oi.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> <83r2oxqelu.fsf@gnu.org> <1f646d8d6a6c4731cc789715df4d7e9b.squirrel@dancol.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520367452 31761 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 20:17:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 20:17:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, eggert@cs.ucla.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: dancol@dancol.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 21:17:27 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 1etJ1X-00072s-1x for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 21:17:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:57915 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJ3Z-00044t-1i for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:19:29 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38808) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJ2x-00044g-1A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:18:51 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJ2t-00088q-ST for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:18:51 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54745) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etJ2t-00088l-OL; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:18:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2101 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1etJ2t-0001TA-1W; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 15:18:47 -0500 In-reply-to: <1f646d8d6a6c4731cc789715df4d7e9b.squirrel@dancol.org> 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:223366 Archived-At: > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:55:16 -0800 > From: dancol@dancol.org > Cc: "Daniel Colascione" , > eggert@cs.ucla.edu, > cpitclaudel@gmail.com, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > You mean, save it to a disk file? I think we should insert the number > > of blanks to align stuff with fixed-pitch font, so that it looks well > > with those fonts. If we want to preserve the display properties > > across sessions, we could use enriched-text-mode, I think. > > I don't think there's any clean way to embed this alignment information in > arbitrary program text though. No, it would be necessary to reconstruct it. But any solution that uses text properties will have the same problem. And I don't quite see how we can align text rendered with variable-pitch font without something like that.