Re: gnus-summary-line-format when using non-fixed width font?

[Dave Abrahams]

on Wed Jul 25 2012, moabi2000 <moabi2000-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Using a non-monospaced font makes reading mail and news far
> easier. However, it makes the summary line look awful since you can't
> just pad with spaces to make the date, author and subject line up. The
> arrows used for threads don't line up either.
>
> Is there any way to make things line up in the summary buffer when
> using a non-monospace font?

I get what I think are pretty good results, e.g.

http://cl.ly/image/160H1Q0J2z3r

If you want to replicate this you can inspect my gnus configuration at
https://github.com/dabrahams/dwamacs/blob/master/settings/gnus-settings.el

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