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Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23 |
Date: |
Thu, 31 Mar 2011 20:42:03 +0200 |
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:58:55 -0400
>
> > Not necessarily. In Emacs, we can specify that text be displayed
> > aligned to a specific width in pixels. See the node "Specified Space"
> > in the ELisp manual. Perhaps display of programming languages could
> > use this feature to align program source even with proportional fonts.
>
> I don't think we have good support for that in the display engine right
> now, but we do have some amount of support for it and it's not used for
> that purpose, and I think there's a good reason: there is no place to
> store the necessary information in the file. So while you might be able
> to do align on-demand and even maintain that alignment as the buffer is
> edited, it's difficult to infer the needed alignment from the source
> file: I think that the information present in the file is sufficient for
> 90% of the cases, but the remaining 10% is problematic (and even
> getting those 90% working might be dependent on the language, i.e. on
> the major-mode).
We do something very similar with fontification. There's no reason,
at least not a-priori, that it won't work with alignment.
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, (continued)
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Uday Reddy, 2011/03/29
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, rusi, 2011/03/29
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Uday Reddy, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, rusi, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, PJ Weisberg, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/30
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- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Stefan Monnier, 2011/03/31
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23,
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- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2011/03/31
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/31
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Peter Dyballa, 2011/03/30
Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Thien-Thi Nguyen, 2011/03/30
Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Xah Lee, 2011/03/28