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bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in
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Arthur Miller |
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bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer |
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Sat, 27 Nov 2021 09:47:58 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Arthur Miller <arthur.miller@live.com>
>> Date: Fri, 26 Nov 2021 21:01:11 +0100
>>
>> I am not sure if the title is descriptive enough, or even correct, but as
>> seen
>> from attached code and image, I am trying to align two strings in a center of
>> each strings line.
>>
>> It works now when string-pixel-width correctly calculates pixel widths.
>> However,
>> I would prefer if I could just use :align-to center as a spec for a string as
>> property. Currently we have to use space as a spacer as we used to use
>> gif-spacers back in time.
>>
>> I am not sure about how semantics would work, there are several cases to
>> consider, but generally if a string or a stretch of text in a string were
>> given
>> text property 'display '(:align-to center), then Emacs would align that
>> stretch
>> of text in the middle of the line that text occupies.
>
> I don't understand what exactly are you asking for. Is your problem
> that you have to prepend some character to the string and put the
> :align-to spec on that character? Because AFAIU that simple measure
> should achieve your goal.
You mean something like this:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun evc--time ()
(propertize
(time-stamp-string " %H:%M") 'face evc--time-face 'display '(space :align-to
center)))
(defun evc--date ()
(propertize
(concat
" "
(capitalize (time-stamp-string "%A")) ". "
(capitalize (time-stamp-string "%B %d"))) 'face evc--date-face 'display
'(space :align-to center)))
(defun evc--update ()
(let ((time (evc--time))
(date (evc--date)))
(when (frame-live-p evc--frame)
(select-frame evc--frame))
(with-current-buffer evc--buffer
(erase-buffer)
(insert time "\n" date))))
#+end_src
That "simple measure" does not achieve the goal of aligning involved strings to
center; or I don't know understand how you mean.
This does:
#+begin_src emacs-lisp
(defun evc--time ()
(propertize
(time-stamp-string " %H:%M") 'face evc--time-face))
(defun evc--date ()
(propertize
(concat
(capitalize (time-stamp-string "%A")) ". "
(capitalize (time-stamp-string "%B %d"))) 'face evc--date-face))
(let* ((tlen (* 0.5 (string-pixel-width time)))
(dlen (* 0.5 (string-pixel-width date)))
(spct (propertize " " 'display `(space :align-to (- center
(,tlen)))))
(spcd (propertize " " 'display `(space :align-to (- center
(,dlen))))))
(insert spct time "\n" spcd date))
#+end_src
> please show some simple code to explain your
> requests.
I hope above illustrates that it is not just to prepend a space, you have to
calculate how much it should extend to. This has to be done for each line.
Also, even if it would be just to prepend a spacer character, the goal is still
to align text in center of a line, so why can't we just renderer to do it for
us, instead of having such procedural way of telling it what to do. Why can we
not just tell:
(defun evc--time ()
(propertize
(time-stamp-string " %H:%M") 'face evc--time-face 'display '(line :align-to
center)))
or something similar.
Also what if the text is longer then visual line? Would it be possible for the
rendering engine to center part of the tring with 'aligne-to center' property,
and cull extensive part on sides that are outside. That is not acheavable with
a spacer.
- bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/11/26
- bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/27
- bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer,
Arthur Miller <=
- bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/27
- bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/11/27
- bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/27
- bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/11/27
- bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/11/28
- bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer, Arthur Miller, 2021/11/28
- bug#52129: 29.0.50; Wish: Extend `:align-to center' to work on lines in buffer, Lars Ingebrigtsen, 2021/11/29