make variable-pitch-mode pretty like eww?

make variable-pitch-mode pretty like eww?

[Rasmus]

Hi,

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.

Thanks,
Rasmus

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Re: make variable-pitch-mode pretty like eww?

[Michael Heerdegen]

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.


Michael.

Re: make variable-pitch-mode pretty like eww?

[Rasmus]

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

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Re: make variable-pitch-mode pretty like eww?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
> Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 11:16:30 +0200
> 
> > 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?

I'd suggest to start at shr-fill-lines.