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Re: Variable-width font indentation


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: Variable-width font indentation
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2018 23:18:42 +0200

> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> From: Clément Pit-Claudel <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 14:48:33 -0500
> 
> > IME, indentation of text in word processors I use does not depend on
> > previous lines at all.
> 
> Except in lists, right?

No, in lists as well.

> For example it's not uncommon to wrap like this:
> 
> * Some long text here
>   that wraps around:
> 
>   i.   Point 1
>        … continued
>   ii.  Point 2
>        … continued
>   iii. Point 3
>        … continued

What I meant was that if you, for example, enlarge the font, the
indentation doesn't get larger in pixels.  (I'm not sure we should
follow that extreme example, but it does drive the point home, I
think.)



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