From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lennart Borgman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as word processor Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:50:30 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87vbzqfgd6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83vbzkcx20.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1385131905 14624 80.91.229.3 (22 Nov 2013 14:51:45 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 22 Nov 2013 14:51:45 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Thien-Thi Nguyen , Emacs-Devel devel , Stefan Monnier , Drew Adams , "Richard M. Stallman" To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 22 15:51:49 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjs5D-00051w-PP for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 15:51:47 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39263 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjs5D-0004Bb-Fg for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:51:47 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37589) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjs4p-0003i2-Fd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:51:28 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjs4k-0007OT-SR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:51:23 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-wg0-x22e.google.com ([2a00:1450:400c:c00::22e]:40485) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Vjs4U-0007Kc-RV; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 09:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: by mail-wg0-f46.google.com with SMTP id m15so1229789wgh.25 for ; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:51:01 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type; bh=vsfbL51A20NhsOggmAJXKftRnQwnqSurH6tNnTucVZ8=; b=p1DsIGPW/q3CbiY7lFU881XAYxHPAsVVOEKw9nsxwx1ipZ+SZOu1sxnKW5gHoPFr/U 8IcVgjh9jDcx6sSmuqTpeBmpYSYWZgBWB2SdYppfGmQHn4BNbxiu2ChG5SW0dO3oTP+N 8wOkZy8phhDqa3XxkDwbGaOuQ170EfCdmsJdmBxgXHUp24VHwckgREZjOmGaJckTamO8 1QIuSe6VkBuBi0rGjO887X7IeEqUCOfyj6s22OyJXGS18DJzbPsTJvpF8VChdxCfg5eg asFjEjHHwpeentbr/Fc0+bOX1txjgxafpJMl9BQ2PTShxDEc26SOtaKwKcV2NX5De2st HdFA== X-Received: by 10.194.5.7 with SMTP id o7mr10691289wjo.17.1385131861602; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:51:01 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by 10.194.216.227 with HTTP; Fri, 22 Nov 2013 06:50:30 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <83vbzkcx20.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2a00:1450:400c:c00::22e 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:165561 Archived-At: On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 3:48 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > I guess you've never used any of the *Office word processors, because > they allow this quite easily: there's a font selection combo on the > tool bar, and a size selection combo right next to it. You mark the > text, then select any font and/or any size, and the marked text > acquires those attributes. There are also tool-bar button to > gradually increase/decrease the size of the selected text. I use to help friends sometimes who have done exactly that when they are writing a thesis. A big trouble. Of course they owe me a lot after such help. ;-)