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Re: Enclosing text in a box
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Heime |
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Re: Enclosing text in a box |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Nov 2022 14:51:24 +0000 |
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On Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 at 2:47 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
wrote:
> > From: Yuri Khan yuri.v.khan@gmail.com
> > Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2022 21:11:04 +0700
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> >
> > On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 20:59, Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org wrote:
> >
> > > Using 'length' to measure the width of text on display is not
> > > reliable, because there are characters of different width. It is
> > > better to use 'string-width' or 'string-pixel-width' instead.
> >
> > The next stumbling point is going to be “make-string does the wrong
> > thing when passed 17.237 as the count”, without an explanation as to
> > what the right thing would be. (I don’t know either.)
>
>
> Why would sane code call make-string with such an argument?
The premise seems to be that "string-width" returns it. I would like to
have the ability to pass unicode characters.
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- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Alexis Roda, 2022/11/16
- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/16
- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Yuri Khan, 2022/11/16
- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Heime, 2022/11/16
- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/16
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- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/16
- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Heime, 2022/11/16
- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Heime, 2022/11/16
- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/16
- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Heime, 2022/11/16
- Re: Enclosing text in a box, Eli Zaretskii, 2022/11/16
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