Re: Variable pitch text filling

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2021 19:19:16 +0100
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > Why would you need the overall min-width, if each one of the "-" is as
> > wide as "*" or "%" (whichever is wider)?
> 
> That's not what we're going for, I think?  The "-" should be made as
> wide as a "normal character", but "%" is often wider.

That's not the important part in my question, the important part is
this:

> IOW, why also have a condition on a whole when you already have
> conditions on each one of its parts?

Since the overall width is a sum of the widths of the individual
characters, placing min-width on each character would also yield
min-width on all of them together.  Right?