Re: Enclosing text in a box

[Heime]

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On Wednesday, November 16th, 2022 at 2:11 PM, Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com> 
wrote:


> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 at 20:59, Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org wrote:
> 
> > Using 'length' to measure the width of text on display is not
> > reliable, because there are characters of different width. It is
> > better to use 'string-width' or 'string-pixel-width' instead.
> 
> 
> The next stumbling point is going to be “make-string does the wrong
> thing when passed 17.237 as the count”, without an explanation as to
> what the right thing would be. (I don’t know either.)

Emacs should have the right amount of space to insert the printing entity.