Re: Variable pitch text filling

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 17:49:05 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > So what are the requirements for the replacement feature here?
> 
> I think it's basically to be able to specify the widths that the `space'
> display ting takes -- pixels and "normal characters" (and the latter
> should be extended to the "normal character" of the face, as you pointed
> out).
> 
> But the wrinkle is that these spaces should only be used if the
> character is narrower than the space we computed.
> 
> In addition, there should be a way to specify that the space should be
> an integer multiple of the "normal character" width.

Is this per character or per string?

And what happened to the "recursive" part of what you described
earlier -- is that no longer needed?