Re: Emacs/W3 needs DEVELOPERS...

[William M. Perry]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     [Of course, there are several things that W3 needs implemented in
>     Emacs, e.g. proper handling of variable-width text and background
>     pixmaps.]
> 
> What sort of proper handling do you have in mind?  Is there a bug in
> handling variable-width text?  Could you please be more specific?

Basically, Emacs/W3 does _nothing_ special about variable-width text.  It
uses the face properties, so they display nicely, but I just use the
center-region and fill-paragraph functions, which currently don't do
anything smart about buffers that have variable-width fonts.

Another pain would be table alignment.  'stretches' might help here, but
I'm not too inclined to make major changes to the rendering code until the
redesign is finished and we use the document object model so that we could
render SGML and XML for free as well as just nasty old HTML.

-bp
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