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Re: Add a function that returns pixel distance between points?
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Yuan Fu |
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Re: Add a function that returns pixel distance between points? |
Date: |
Sun, 31 Jan 2021 00:17:58 -0500 |
>> For aligning text according to their display size, I need to calculate the
>> width of some text. Currently I’m using window-text-pixel-size, but it has
>> some problem: if the text I’m measuring has line-prefix or wrap-prefix, the
>> size returned will include the width of the prefix. So if the prefix is 14
>> pixels wide and the text is 7 pixels wide, the returned value is 21 instead
>> of 7. Line number width is sometimes included in the result and sometimes
>> not.
>>
>> There is also posn-at-point but that requires the point to be visible in the
>> window. My alignment function wants to run in jit-lock so point is not
>> always visible, so I can’t use posn-at-point.
>
> Please explain what you mean by "align text according to display
> size". It isn't clear what you want to accomplish, and therefore the
> full set of requirements and restrictions is not evident, which makes
> it hard to provide useful advice.
Sorry for that. I want to align text-based tables by pixel size, as in:
| header | header | header |
| 1 | 1 | 8 |
| 2 | 6 | 3 |
When the text is displayed in variable-pitch font, the bars aren’t aligned. I’m
using display property (space :align-to) to align those bars. To know with
pixel position to align to, I need to calculate each column’s pixel width, and
met the difficulties mentioned earlier.
Yuan