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Re: make variable-pitch-mode pretty like eww?
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Michael Heerdegen |
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Re: make variable-pitch-mode pretty like eww? |
Date: |
Tue, 07 Jun 2016 00:41:32 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.94 (gnu/linux) |
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.