From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/67122 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: variable-pitch font in article buffer Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:13:09 +0900 Message-ID: <874p753fgq.fsf@catnip.gol.com> References: <86abh1uyjz.fsf@lifelogs.com> <873amt1c64.fsf@catnip.gol.com> <86od5ek7js.fsf@lifelogs.com> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1215180850 5441 80.91.229.12 (4 Jul 2008 14:14:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2008 14:14:10 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Ted Zlatanov , ding@gnus.org To: James Cloos Original-X-From: ding-owner+M15584@lists.math.uh.edu Fri Jul 04 16:14:56 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ding-account@gmane.org Original-Received: from util0.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.18]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KEm3j-00010K-Kf for ding-account@gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:14:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.math.uh.edu) by util0.math.uh.edu with smtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KEm2M-0006xY-HB; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:13:22 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.math.uh.edu ([129.7.128.32]) by util0.math.uh.edu with esmtps (TLSv1:AES256-SHA:256) (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1KEm2L-0006xH-9W for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.231.51]) by mx1.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1KEm2H-0007hK-Ks for ding@lists.math.uh.edu; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 09:13:21 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp11.dentaku.gol.com ([203.216.5.73]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1KEm2b-00010X-00 for ; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 16:13:37 +0200 Original-Received: from 218.33.235.146.eo.eaccess.ne.jp ([218.33.235.146] helo=catnip.gol.com) by smtp11.dentaku.gol.com with esmtpa (Dentaku) id 1KEm2C-0008D2-7c; Fri, 04 Jul 2008 23:13:12 +0900 Original-Received: by catnip.gol.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id BC7C02F3A; Fri, 4 Jul 2008 23:13:09 +0900 (JST) System-Type: i686-pc-linux-gnu In-Reply-To: (James Cloos's message of "Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:55:25 -0400") Original-Lines: 21 X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV GOL (outbound) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-Spam-Score: 0.0 (/) List-ID: Precedence: bulk Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:67122 Archived-At: James Cloos 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 -- Genealogy, n. An account of one's descent from an ancestor who did not particularly care to trace his own.