Re: Using proportional (variable-width) fonts in Emacs23

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:49:48 -0700
> From: PJ Weisberg <pj@irregularexpressions.net>
> 
> > Not necessarily.  In Emacs, we can specify that text be displayed
> > aligned to a specific width in pixels.  See the node "Specified Space"
> > in the ELisp manual.  Perhaps display of programming languages could
> > use this feature to align program source even with proportional fonts.
> 
> Something like the rule "after a string of two or more whitespace
> characters, position the next character as if the preceeding text on
> that line was monospaced"?

Yes, not unlike what we do with font-lock.