From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hendrik Boom Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs as word processor Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 20:04:28 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <87vbzqfgd6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83vbzkcx20.fsf@gnu.org> <83d2lrczi7.fsf@gnu.org> <8338mmcsd9.fsf@gnu.org> <83txf1blf2.fsf@gnu.org> <87txf133yd.fsf@zigzag.favinet> <83r4a5bj5x.fsf@gnu.org> <87mwktdy6r.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <83iovhb0ez.fsf@gnu.org> <87k3fxdpmg.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <837gbwbcsx.fsf@gnu.org> <87d2lnevq7.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1386014708 31252 80.91.229.3 (2 Dec 2013 20:05:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2013 20:05:08 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Dec 02 21:05:13 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 1VnZjy-0007cX-7u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:05:10 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:38639 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VnZjx-0001AD-OI for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:05:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56071) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VnZjp-00015y-3O for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:05:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VnZjf-0000tX-TJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:05:01 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:51598) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VnZjf-0000tL-N5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 15:04:51 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VnZjd-0007Lb-Gx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:04:49 +0100 Original-Received: from topoi.pooq.com ([69.165.131.134]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:04:49 +0100 Original-Received: from hendrik by topoi.pooq.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 02 Dec 2013 21:04:49 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 22 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: topoi.pooq.com User-Agent: Pan/0.139 (Sexual Chocolate; GIT bf56508 git://git.gnome.org/pan2) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:166019 Archived-At: On Tue, 26 Nov 2013 11:35:12 +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote: > Eli Zaretskii writes: ... ... > > > > Another way to look at this is "what happens if *two* intervals > > > completely contained in the same line have *different* > > > line-separation properties?" > > > > They cannot overlap in Emacs. If they are disjoint, then the result > > will be the maximum spacing specified by any one of them. > > Which is not necessarily what the user wants. When I specify something > like that in TeX, I almost always want the *minimum* because it looks > better. YMMV, but it proves the point that users want different things. What you want might be like kerning, only it's vertical, and done line-by- line, not character by character. -- hendrik