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Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23
From: |
Tassilo Horn |
Subject: |
Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23 |
Date: |
Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:30:20 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.110016 (No Gnus v0.16) Emacs/24.0.9999 (gnu/linux) |
Erin Brinkley <erin_brinkley@yahoo.com> writes:
Hi Erin,
> I'm using Emacs 23 now and LOVE using proportional fonts! (AKA
> variable width fonts.) It FINALLY makes Emacs look beautiful, makes
> text easy to read.
That's a purely subjective feeling. ;-)
> But I discovered a huge problem: the fill and word wrap commands are
> hard coded to work for monospaced fonts only!
They are not hard-coded to specific fonts. `fill-paragraph' (M-q) means
"reformat the current paragraph in such a way that all lines are at most
`fill-column' columns long".
What you seem to expect was something like "fill to pixel width". Of
course, that doesn't make sense with real, physical linebreaks. But
there's `visual-line-mode', which performs line wrapping only on the
display level, without changing the file.
,----[ (info "(emacs)Visual Line Mode") ]
| Another alternative to ordinary line continuation is to use "word
| wrap". Here, each long logical line is divided into two or more screen
| lines, like in ordinary line continuation. However, Emacs attempts to
| wrap the line at word boundaries near the right window edge. This
| makes the text easier to read, as wrapping does not occur in the middle
| of words.
`----
Bye,
Tassilo
- Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Erin Brinkley, 2011/03/28
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/28
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23,
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- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Uday Reddy, 2011/03/28
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, rusi, 2011/03/28
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Uday Reddy, 2011/03/29
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, rusi, 2011/03/29
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Uday Reddy, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, rusi, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Pascal J. Bourguignon, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, Eli Zaretskii, 2011/03/30
- Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23, PJ Weisberg, 2011/03/30