Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2013 13:35:54 -0500
From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
- awareness of current-column as a float
I started working on this in 2002, but got distracted.
The (small, exploratory) changes were reverted 2011-03-06.
- correspondance between buffer pos and pixel (x,y) coords on screen
- floating (text "flows" around) images, tables, and other "objects"
- automatic pagination
- page-based stats (word-count, etc), margins, "styles"
These seem like important features, I agree.
This one is already supported:
- correspondance between buffer pos and pixel (x,y) coords on screen
(Unless I misunderstand what is meant by that.)
However, I don't understand why these features are put forward before
much more basic ones. As I understand Richard's request, he would
like to do everything we can do in Texinfo, but with WYSIWYG display,
have a capability to export that in several formats, and be able to
print it from Emacs. Why not start with these modest features?