From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Any objection to adding a unicode footnote style? (encoding fixed)
Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 10:39:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <874o53g9xv.fsf@lifelogs.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83bozcjqu9.fsf@gnu.org
On Mon, 09 May 2011 10:06:06 +0300 Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 12:26:55 +0800
>>
>> Sorry for sending a diff with mixed encodings. It is now split into
>> two parts:
>> 1. convert footnote.el to utf-8
>> 2. diff (attached)
EZ> Thanks, now I can read it.
EZ> I don't really mind (as I don't use footnote-mode), but this will look
EZ> quite ugly if the default font doesn't have the Unicode superscript
EZ> characters. In that case, Emacs will use a different font to draw
EZ> just the Unicode characters, which will result in 1, 2, and 3 drawn a
EZ> bit lower than the other digits, or wider, or both. Depending on the
EZ> default font, it could also be that 0, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 will be
EZ> drawn taller than the others.
EZ> Are we willing to bet that the default font is a Unicode font for most
EZ> users? If not, perhaps at least some caveat in the doc string is in
EZ> order.
Wouldn't it look nicer if the Emacs superscript text properties were
used when the display supports them, and fall back to pure Unicode
characters when they're not available?
Ted
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-09 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-08 10:11 Any objection to adding a unicode footnote style? Leo
2011-05-08 14:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-08 16:43 ` Leo
2011-05-08 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 4:26 ` Any objection to adding a unicode footnote style? (encoding fixed) Leo
2011-05-09 7:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 15:39 ` Ted Zlatanov [this message]
2011-05-09 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 16:22 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09 16:50 ` Alp Aker
2011-05-09 17:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 17:06 ` Alp Aker
2011-05-09 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 18:10 ` Alp Aker
2011-05-09 18:21 ` Alp Aker
2011-05-09 17:22 ` Alp Aker
2011-05-09 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-09 17:20 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-09 17:27 ` Leo
2011-05-09 17:50 ` Ted Zlatanov
2011-05-10 5:09 ` Leo
2011-05-10 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-05-10 10:53 ` Leo
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