From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ted Zlatanov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Any objection to adding a unicode footnote style? (encoding fixed) Date: Mon, 09 May 2011 10:39:24 -0500 Organization: =?utf-8?B?0KLQtdC+0LTQvtGAINCX0LvQsNGC0LDQvdC+0LI=?= @ Cienfuegos Message-ID: <874o53g9xv.fsf@lifelogs.com> References: <83oc3djmda.fsf@gnu.org> <83k4e1jesg.fsf@gnu.org> <83bozcjqu9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1304956223 10738 80.91.229.12 (9 May 2011 15:50:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 9 May 2011 15:50:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 09 17:50:17 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([140.186.70.17]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSiv-00017H-Ad for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 17:50:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:50090 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSiu-0006Et-SR for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:50:16 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:41764) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSim-00066w-U8 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:50:13 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSil-0003gu-Pg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:50:08 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:48840) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSil-0003gT-Ig for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 11:50:07 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QJSik-000122-6S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 09 May 2011 17:50:06 +0200 Original-Received: from 38.98.147.130 ([38.98.147.130]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 17:50:06 +0200 Original-Received: from tzz by 38.98.147.130 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 09 May 2011 17:50:06 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 38.98.147.130 X-Face: bd.DQ~'29fIs`T_%O%C\g%6jW)yi[zuz6; d4V0`@y-~$#3P_Ng{@m+e4o<4P'#(_GJQ%TT= D}[Ep*b!\e,fBZ'j_+#"Ps?s2!4H2-Y"sx" User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:rpDateFMVkIDkGMDFHhhz2GaypY= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 80.91.229.12 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 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-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:139270 Archived-At: On Mon, 09 May 2011 10:06:06 +0300 Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Leo >> 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