Re: Variable-width font indentation

[Richard Stallman]

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  > > Take a look at enriched.el (and etc/enriched.txt as the demonstration
  > > of its capabilities): we already have the capability for serializing
  > > this, had it for many years.

  > That's fine so long as you have a file you want to edit _only_ with 
  > Emacs. Files that need to be understood by other tools would need 
  > information about indentation adjustment included in some compatible way 
  > (maybe a comment), but since other tools would know nothing of this 
  > information, it would go out of date. Requiring that people edit a 
  > source file only with Emacs is not realistic.

I agree.  One of the features we will want
is to make Emacs able to read and write ODT format and RTF,
even if at first it can only handle subsets of their features.

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Dr Richard Stallman
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