Re: Using proportional fonts in Gnus

[Miles Bader]

Giacomo Boffi <giacomo.boffi@polimi.it> writes:
>> It's interesting to consider how one might do this in an "Emacsy"
>> manner convenient for elisp programmers.
>
> it seems to me that an ancient, experimental, discontinued XEmacs
> branch had some support for proportional fonts in "formatted" buffers,
> the like of dired or mail/news summaries

My personal branch of Emacs has this feature too.  E.g., I have
proportional fonts turned on by default in Gnus *Article* buffers, and
even in this message composition buffer (and I can toggle it in a buffer
with `C-c C-v').

Because of disagreement about random implementation details with RMS,
this isn't in the CVS trunk, but it's a reasonably simple patch (it's a
C-level change though, not lisp-level).

[I assume that the details will be worked out in the future, and such a
feature included in a future version of Emacs, but I find it too
exhausting to argue (with RMS) about, especially with a release pending,
so I'm not pushing right now.]

-Miles
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