Re: make variable-pitch-mode pretty like eww?

[Michael Heerdegen]

Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:

> Eww is really good at making nice proportional-font "columns".  Is it
> possible to leverage eww’s pixel alignment in "normal" text documents
> when I use variable-pitch-mode?
>
> Preferably, I’d like my align-fill’ed lines to be "reflowed" into nice
> columns.  Alternatively, I could have a single paragraph per line if
> something like visual-line-mode could be tamed to make "reasonable"
> columns, like eww.

That should not be hard, but somebody would have to do it (maybe create
a bug report if none about this exists yet).

What eww does is quite simple: it walks through the text line by
line, looks how wide the text is and adds line breaks etc.  You could
probably reuse most of eww's code.


Michael.