Re: Variable-width font indentation

[Daniel Colascione]

On 03/06/2018 12:18 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 6 Mar 2018 09:55:16 -0800
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> > Cc: "Daniel Colascione" <address@hidden>,
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> > > You mean, save it to a disk file?  I think we should insert the number
> > > of blanks to align stuff with fixed-pitch font, so that it looks well
> > > with those fonts.  If we want to preserve the display properties
> > > across sessions, we could use enriched-text-mode, I think.
> >
> > I don't think there's any clean way to embed this alignment information in
> > arbitrary program text though.
>
> No, it would be necessary to reconstruct it.  But any solution that
> uses text properties will have the same problem.  And I don't quite
> see how we can align text rendered with variable-pitch font without
> something like that.

Right. The leading-indentation case is *barely* feasible, if you imagine 
that modes can accurately indent all lines automatically. I don't see a 
path toward internal alignment, since there's no algorithmic way to 
disambiguate spacing. The closest thing would be something like 
align-regexp, and even this facility requires manual intervention.