> On Nov 30, 2020, at 2:43 AM, Pankaj Jangid <pankaj@codeisgreat.org> wrote:
> 
> Yuan Fu <casouri@gmail.com <mailto:casouri@gmail.com>> writes:
> 
>> Text-based tables in Emacs has a problem when used with variable-pitch
>> fonts and CJK characters: they don’t align. To solve that problem, I
>> wrote a package, vailgn.el, to provide automatic alignment for Org
>> Mode, Markdown, and table.el tables. Many people have been using it
>> (primarily the Chinese community) with success and many bugs have been
>> fixed. With the latest version, I am satisfied with the features
>> valign.el provides and its stability, so I want to see added to ELPA.
>> 
>> I’ve updated the copyright header and I’ve signed the assignment. What
>> should I do next? I wish to keep hosting the project on GitHub. Here
>> is the project homepage: https://github.com/casouri/valign
> 
> This looks really good. I have a question.
> 
> Is this package related to tables only or will this be a generic
> enhancement? I feel that this should be a generic enhancement. Following
> are the two cases where I see its appliation:
> 

This package is only about tables. AFAICT providing a generic auto-alignment is difficult. A better way is to ask the author of each of the packages to align the columns in the package. That’s quite easy, often one only need to replace

(insert (make-string 3 ?\s))

with

(insert (propertize " " 'display '(space :align-to xxx)))


Yuan