From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: HTML-Info design Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:23:53 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87fvc858c6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87ioh4nf8k.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83y4pzptpx.fsf@gnu.org> <871tnr1gqo.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83bnmvowdb.fsf@gnu.org> <83ppbanqhe.fsf@gnu.org> <87vbl2xigp.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83ioh2nlow.fsf@gnu.org> <87sig6xech.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <83fvc5ni0u.fsf@gnu.org> <87k31fwwyv.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87bnmq9ibf.fsf@ferrier.me.uk> <87lhlrx5fc.fsf@building.gnus.org> <878uhrcr5l.fsf@building.gnus.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1419895446 1511 80.91.229.3 (29 Dec 2014 23:24:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 29 Dec 2014 23:24:06 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eliz@gnu.org, stephen@xemacs.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, nferrier@ferrier.me.uk, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Lars Ingebrigtsen Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Dec 30 00:24:01 2014 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 1Y5jfM-00051u-K2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 00:24:00 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:35097 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5jfM-0003BE-0B for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:24:00 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35974) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5jfI-0003Ar-0A for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:23:56 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5jfG-00019m-Uy for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:23:55 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:54084) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5jfG-00019i-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:23:54 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Y5jfF-0003WP-7u; Mon, 29 Dec 2014 18:23:53 -0500 In-reply-to: <878uhrcr5l.fsf@building.gnus.org> (message from Lars Ingebrigtsen on Mon, 29 Dec 2014 00:04:38 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Error: Malformed IPv6 address (bad octet value). X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e 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:180867 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Then somebody will have to get cracking on making the Emacs display > engine more expressive so that that's possible, I guess? > (Yes, Emacs can display proportional fonts and fonts of different sizes, > but until you can fold (etc) proportional text (and text with a mixture > of font sizes) in a pretty manner, that's more of a toy than anything > else.) This is a very important feature to add to Emacs. It includes being able to do width and position calculations in units finer than characters. Also, there should be a way to adjust intercharacter spacing to make the trailing margin line up. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation 51 Franklin St Boston MA 02110 USA www.fsf.org www.gnu.org Skype: No way! That's nonfree (freedom-denying) software. Use Ekiga or an ordinary phone call.