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Re: Emacs as word processor
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Eli Zaretskii |
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Re: Emacs as word processor |
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Sun, 24 Nov 2013 23:10:18 +0200 |
> From: Thien-Thi Nguyen <address@hidden>
> Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:06:02 +0100
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> () Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> () Sun, 24 Nov 2013 22:21:37 +0200
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> Indeed, faces cannot specify this, but I see no reason why they
> couldn't be extended to do that as well.
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> If "faces" (the concept) were to include these extra-character features,
> then their composition would be greatly complicated.
That ship sailed a long time ago: we already have 'line-spacing' text
property. Indentation and justification are no different.
> It seems more natural to leave "faces" (the concept) as a "leaf"
> feature, IMHO. For example, if the "style" i want is to have top-level
> headings of a nested list in Courier, sub-headings in Italic, and all
> body text in Times, then i think it would be more natural to specify
> that directly to the style machinery and let it wrangle the faces for
> me, then to specify the faces "Courier, only in top-level list
> headings" and so on, as unique entities, to be applied in a separate
> step to the particular text i'm composing.
This is the source of all evil in Office. The result is a terrible
mess where the user ends up having no control on what is going on in
her document (except for very short documents). No, thanks.
- Re: Emacs as word processor, (continued)
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- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Richard Stallman, 2013/11/23
- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/23
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- Re: Emacs as word processor, Eli Zaretskii, 2013/11/24
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