Re: Emacs as word processor

[Thien-Thi Nguyen]

() Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
() Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:21:37 +0200

   Indeed, faces cannot specify this, but I see no reason why they
   couldn't be extended to do that as well.

If "faces" (the concept) were to include these extra-character features,
then their composition would be greatly complicated.  Too, application
(i'm imagining the case of yanking text w/ a ‘face’ text-property that
controls, say, pre-paragraph line-spacing into the middle of other text,
which has conflicting specs, or a context where "paragraph" does not
even have meaning).

It seems more natural to leave "faces" (the concept) as a "leaf"
feature, IMHO.  For example, if the "style" i want is to have top-level
headings of a nested list in Courier, sub-headings in Italic, and all
body text in Times, then i think it would be more natural to specify
that directly to the style machinery and let it wrangle the faces for
me, then to specify the faces "Courier, only in top-level list
headings" and so on, as unique entities, to be applied in a separate
step to the particular text i'm composing.

Not to mention when i promote a sub-heading to top-level, who (which
part of Emacs) is responsible for recognizing the text cut via ‘C-w’ and
yanked via ‘C-y’ is now "out of style"?  And what to do about it?

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