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Re: Truncate string to a given width in proportional font


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: Truncate string to a given width in proportional font
Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 00:14:39 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

> Is there any way of truncating a string to fit in a given width, when
> using a proportional font?

No, not really.  The only support for the kind of thing you're trying to do
is the :align-to display property which only adds space, but doesn't
truncate text.


        Stefan


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