Re: variable-pitch font in article buffer

[Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>]

James Cloos <cloos@jhcloos.com> writes:
> I'd live to see a variable pitch mode for the Summary and Group buffers,
> too, using something other than spaces to place the columnar data.  I
> don't know whether Emacs has the necessary support for that yet, though.

"Stretch-glyphs" can be used to align text a bit more flexibly; they're
basically like tabs that aren't restricted to tab-stops.

However obviously such a thing is likely to be rather unportable to
people's custom summary format strings.

Perhaps the thing to do is (1) add magic chars to the summary format
string spec that lets one specify which parts will use a variable-pitch
face, and (2) try to use stretch-glyphs instead of spaces for aligning
the end of padded parts.

-Miles

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