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Re: Variable-width font indentation


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2018 19:49:01 +0200

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Daniel Colascione <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 08:38:28 -0800
> 
> > We could have an interactive alignment feature, whereby the user could
> > move a character at pixel resolution, until it aligns to the user's
> > liking.  The implementation would modify the :align-to attribute of
> > the display property we put on whitespace before that character.
> 
> How would you serialize the result?

You mean, save it to a disk file?  I think we should insert the number
of blanks to align stuff with fixed-pitch font, so that it looks well
with those fonts.  If we want to preserve the display properties
across sessions, we could use enriched-text-mode, I think.



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