Re: Variable-width font indentation

[dancol]

>> 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.

I don't think there's any clean way to embed this alignment information in
arbitrary program text though.