From: Erin Brinkley <erin_brinkley@yahoo.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23
Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2011 09:22:51 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <898836.13190.qm@web121803.mail.ne1.yahoo.com> (raw)
Hi!
I'm using Emacs 23 now and LOVE using proportional fonts! (AKA variable width fonts.) It FINALLY makes Emacs look beautiful, makes text easy to read.
But I discovered a huge problem: the fill and word wrap commands are hard coded to work for monospaced fonts only! For instance the fill-column is based on monospace fonts: if you use a proportional font and set the fill column to what you think is a reasonable number, you'll soon find out that you are WRONG and you get extra whitespace at the end of a line, and words will wrap! The only way out is to set the fill-column to an insanely low number, and that's not a real solution either!
I saw a copy of the old Emacs 21 manual online where it says that yes, you can use variable width fonts but the fill and wrap commands aren't yet set up for it. Something about how they were working on it. I'm curious how that's been going over the years. Is there any support for these fonts in Emacs now? Anyone know of a hack - kludge - tip - workaround I can try in the meantime? I love how this looks but admit to going crazy here with all my documents having these weird wrap problems.
Appreciate the help everyone!
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Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-28 16:22 Erin Brinkley [this message]
2011-03-28 18:29 ` Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23 Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-28 18:30 ` Tassilo Horn
[not found] ` <mailman.5.1301337042.1646.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-28 23:58 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-29 2:00 ` rusi
2011-03-29 19:28 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-30 2:47 ` rusi
2011-03-30 8:33 ` Uday Reddy
2011-03-30 13:30 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-30 15:20 ` rusi
2011-03-30 15:53 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-30 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-03-30 19:49 ` PJ Weisberg
2011-03-30 20:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.8.1301508895.9824.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-31 4:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-31 18:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.13.1301596981.19576.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-31 19:38 ` Pascal J. Bourguignon
2011-03-31 19:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-04-01 17:26 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-30 16:42 ` Peter Dyballa
2011-03-30 9:00 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
[not found] <mailman.0.1301334352.1646.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2011-03-28 23:01 ` Xah Lee
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