Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine

[sbaugh]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> I want this centering display to be handled by the display engine, as
>> other similar things are.
>
> Another way to say it is that you want it to work even when the buffer
> is displayed simultaneously in two different windows of different sizes
> and using different default faces.

Ah, yes, precisely!

> The current display engine doesn't know how to do that.  While I'm not
> personally very interested in centering text in the window, I'd be very
> happy to see improvements in this area of the display engine (the part
> I'm interested in is for tabular display where :align-to doesn't really
> work for right-aligned columns).

Hmm... is there a single change that would allow both that and the
text-centering I want?