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Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine
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sbaugh |
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Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine |
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Tue, 13 Apr 2021 16:49:59 -0400 |
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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: sbaugh@catern.com
>> To have centered text, I think I'd want to do something like
>>
>> :align-to (- center (0.5 . line-size))
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> As far as I understand the documentation, there's no way to express
>> something like line-size currently? Maybe that could be easily added?
>
> We have window-text-pixel-size, isn't that what you want?
But that can't be used in a pixel specification, as far as I understand?
And anyway, I don't think that's right - as the Elisp manual says,
"window-text-pixel-size treats the text displayed in a window as a whole
and does not care about the size of individual lines."
> If that doesn't help, then I guess I'll ask you to describe the use
> case in more detail.
The behavior I want is what's described here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_alignment#Centered
There's a picture on that page captioned "Centered text" which shows the
desired behavior.
> E.g., are you planning on centering each line separately, or
> everything together, or something else?
Each line separately.
> IOW, how did you envision you'd put the display property on each line?
The same display property would be applied to every line.
> and how does this work when the user types text to add more lines, or
> make a line longer than the window? etc. etc.
When they add more lines, those new lines are also centered. If a line
is longer than the window, it's truncated or wrapped depending on
truncate-lines, word-wrap, etc., as usual.
- Horizontal centering in the display engine, sbaugh, 2021/04/13
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/13
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, sbaugh, 2021/04/13
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/13
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine,
sbaugh <=
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/14
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, sbaugh, 2021/04/14
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, Yuan Fu, 2021/04/14
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, Stefan Monnier, 2021/04/14
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, sbaugh, 2021/04/14
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/14
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, sbaugh, 2021/04/14
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, Eli Zaretskii, 2021/04/14
- Re: Horizontal centering in the display engine, martin rudalics, 2021/04/14