From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Daniel Colascione Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:38:28 -0800 Message-ID: References: <87inaiss6l.fsf@web.de> <6FCF6ACA-4F29-4B6B-BE9D-D7130C6E9495@gnu.org> <87fu5moe4c.fsf@web.de> <877eqyocro.fsf@web.de> <83zi3uz4nb.fsf@gnu.org> <0b1dd3fa-e0b0-ed20-a256-dd92d1c1826f@dancol.org> <8bc3c4c7-dfc7-987a-95e7-bd309e2326c6@cs.ucla.edu> <03118DC0-39DA-4AB5-980E-A33809B9A5EE@raeburn.org> <83vaeas8uz.fsf@gnu.org> <83lgf6s3aa.fsf@gnu.org> <8b94336f-1bb4-84ab-263b-af5ba40bfca4@cs.ucla.edu> <673d6612-f0d4-5d34-c6ee-a276dbba3068@cs.ucla.edu> <836069rxfw.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1520354357 8386 195.159.176.226 (6 Mar 2018 16:39:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 16:39:17 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.6.0 Cc: cpitclaudel@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 06 17:39:13 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etFcD-0000RH-UK for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 17:39:02 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56845 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFeG-0003Jt-P3 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:41:08 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39368) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFbt-0001pM-NC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:38:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFbo-0004o7-UU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:38:41 -0500 Original-Received: from dancol.org ([2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3]:59074) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1etFbo-0004nS-Kn; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 11:38:36 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dancol.org; s=x; h=Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Date:Message-ID:From:References:Cc:To:Subject; bh=BzYwM2qwu0rI4KxkHuTtqX+IX1Q+TnJHrbhY9h/0F8w=; b=YRUACEkuITL3cOscCC4zYO2ogozyYvStOb5Zw8LhwAz7YAUmvXqztdQdpLrJSm3lzyeKwnd2bwF1yPI81k/yVmhBX7WhzyPXf0qjxn2k057zsiEPybGNx/yhVN9lreB2ps2mPiNZI2B+J+EHzTgpa5dyfR6HgZKXhM60z9RZw52rwJq04pe60n+iihL9AeX+ixpZcOMBsTsMwOIPyO+1iug9vfcx1sLDRiqvCypyNgXLwP7J6SGQ9aQIU8GYe2M/Rm4o/N06LWOGh1j8ffvF+qrRdYGAcJnrWY/weuN0VHrDomquqNLdLYoTtD9qM0TNzodzwWWiDNUpws7WpcuHAA==; Original-Received: from [172.92.145.124] (helo=[192.168.86.27]) by dancol.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_128_GCM_SHA256:128) (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1etFbm-0003cp-Pk; Tue, 06 Mar 2018 08:38:34 -0800 In-Reply-To: <836069rxfw.fsf@gnu.org> Content-Language: en-US X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 2600:3c01::f03c:91ff:fedf:adf3 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:223342 Archived-At: On 03/06/2018 08:16 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: Paul Eggert >> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 17:30:24 -0800 >> >> Yes, for ASCII art I doubt whether any simple automated heuristic would >> work unaided. ASCII art is typically ugly and hard-to-read even in a >> fixed-width font, so it's not much of a loss if it's rendered poorly. If >> there's really a need for it I suppose we could let users hint to Emacs >> to switch to a fixed-width font just for the art; that'd be good enough. > > We could have an interactive alignment feature, whereby the user could > move a character at pixel resolution, until it aligns to the user's > liking. The implementation would modify the :align-to attribute of > the display property we put on whitespace before that character. How would you serialize the result?