Re: RTF import/export emacs (was: New Emacs features via Google Summer of Code (or other similar stipend schemes))

[<tomas@tuxteam.de>]

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On Sun, Aug 18, 2024 at 11:38:49AM -0700, Jim Porter wrote:
> On 8/18/2024 11:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2024 10:37:51 -0700
> > > Cc: acorallo@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, stefankangas@gmail.com
> > > From: Jim Porter <jporterbugs@gmail.com>
> > > 
> > > EWW/shr.el don't actually use slicing for flowing text, as far as I
> > > know. I suppose that could work, but I'd be worried about
> > > miscalculations causing the slices to be misaligned (for example if we
> > > tried to support the CSS 'float: right' property).
> > 
> > Using :align-to should allow us to align the slices horizontally (if
> > that is what you had in mind).
> 
> My worry was that if you had this,
> 
>   This is some text   [image slice]
>   that goes on        [image slice]
>   multiple lines.     [image slice]
> 
> we'd have to be very careful. Text-scaling is probably the biggest risk. If
> you enlarge the text, the line-height changes, which would probably break
> things (though I guess we could scale the image too).

Let alone when you have lines with differing heights. Sounds like quite a bit
of fun :-)

Cheers
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t

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