Re: Variable-width font indentation

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 5 Mar 2018 17:30:24 -0800
> 
> Yes, for ASCII art I doubt whether any simple automated heuristic would 
> work unaided. ASCII art is typically ugly and hard-to-read even in a 
> fixed-width font, so it's not much of a loss if it's rendered poorly. If 
> there's really a need for it I suppose we could let users hint to Emacs 
> to switch to a fixed-width font just for the art; that'd be good enough.

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.