Re: Variable-width font indentation

[Clément Pit-Claudel]

On 2018-03-06 11:47, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> What do you mean by "measuring the string"?  Calculating its width?

Correct.

> In your implementation you used 'length', which is definitely not TRT,
> especially with variable-width fonts.

I think you misread the implementation :)  But I'm not sure which part caused 
confusion, so I'm not sure what to explain.

> And I still think that for programming modes, what we need is to
> substitute tab-width and column by suitably computed number of pixels,
> perhaps derived from the width of some character.  Other than that,
> the indentation code should "just work", as long as it uses :align-to
> to get to a given pixel coordinate.

I don't understand this part :/