Re: Emacs as word processor

[Eli Zaretskii]

> 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.