From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: make variable-pitch-mode pretty like eww?
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:16:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <877fe12wb5.fsf@gmx.us> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87poru7xer.fsf@web.de
Michael Heerdegen <michael_heerdegen@web.de> writes:
> Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
>
>> Eww is really good at making nice proportional-font "columns". Is it
>> possible to leverage eww’s pixel alignment in "normal" text documents
>> when I use variable-pitch-mode?
>>
>> Preferably, I’d like my align-fill’ed lines to be "reflowed" into nice
>> columns. Alternatively, I could have a single paragraph per line if
>> something like visual-line-mode could be tamed to make "reasonable"
>> columns, like eww.
>
> That should not be hard, but somebody would have to do it (maybe create
> a bug report if none about this exists yet).
>
> What eww does is quite simple: it walks through the text line by
> line, looks how wide the text is and adds line breaks etc. You could
> probably reuse most of eww's code.
Do you know which are the key functions to examine to get started?
Thanks,
Rasmus
--
To err is human. To screw up 10⁶ times per second, you need a computer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-06-07 9:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-06-03 21:49 make variable-pitch-mode pretty like eww? Rasmus
2016-06-06 22:41 ` Michael Heerdegen
2016-06-07 9:16 ` Rasmus [this message]
2016-06-07 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
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