Re: Support paragraph-local tab stops

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuan Fu <address@hidden>
> Date: Tue, 26 May 2020 19:26:01 -0400
> 
> As show above, the second table has longer tab stops since they have longer 
> headers.
> 
> In Emacs, both table would have to use long tab stops, and the first table 
> with short headers would waste a lot of space. In order to set proper tab 
> stops, you have to go through the whole buffer and use the longest header for 
> each column.
> 
> Word processors doesn’t have this problem because they have paragraph-local 
> tab stops, so each table can have their own tabs stops. I wonder if Emacs can 
> do the same. Can we add a text property that points to a list that specifies 
> the tabs stops to use? Is that possible?

IMO, TAB stops are not the right tool for the job here.  You need to
use the :align-to display property, which allows to align text with
pixel granularity.