From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Future of display engine and lines Date: Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:43:05 -0400 Message-ID: References: <2108181.AU8Z245p1N@galex-713.eu> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="34893"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alexandre Garreau Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 22 00:45:16 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mdgoG-0008qT-1a for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Fri, 22 Oct 2021 00:45:16 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:52830 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdgoE-0000BH-VX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:45:14 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:45742) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdgmB-0003oM-1S for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:43:07 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:45984) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdgmA-0003Dq-Ho; Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:43:06 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mdgm9-0000Ec-Ty; Thu, 21 Oct 2021 18:43:06 -0400 In-Reply-To: <2108181.AU8Z245p1N@galex-713.eu> (message from Alexandre Garreau on Wed, 20 Oct 2021 15:27:19 +0200) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:277537 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. ]]] Powerful extensions in what can be displayed would be very important. Can you design a data structure for it that can represent TeX-style formatted output as well as LibreOffice formatting? Or one that could be extended to reach that point? -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)