gnus-summary-line-format when using non-fixed width font?

gnus-summary-line-format when using non-fixed width font?

[moabi2000]

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Hi,

Using a non-monospaced font makes reading mail and news far easier.
However, it makes the summary line look awful since you can't just pad with
spaces to make the date, author and subject line up. The arrows used for
threads don't line up either.

Is there any way to make things line up in the summary buffer when using a
non-monospace font?

Thanks
M.

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Re: gnus-summary-line-format when using non-fixed width font?

[Tassilo Horn]

moabi2000 <moabi2000@gmail.com> writes:

> Using a non-monospaced font makes reading mail and news far easier.

That's very subjective, but if it is for you it's fine with me. :-)

> However, it makes the summary line look awful since you can't just pad
> with spaces to make the date, author and subject line up. The arrows
> used for threads don't line up either.
>
> Is there any way to make things line up in the summary buffer when
> using a non-monospace font?

Sure.  All things that should line up should be specified first in the
summary line format using a monospaced font, and all other things should
be appended with whatever font you prefer.

For example, take that one:

  "%1{%U%R┃%(%-23,23f%)┃ %*%B %}%2{%s}\n"

Every format spec surrounded by %1{...} will be fontified using the
gnus-face-1 face, and everything surrounded by %2{...} with gnus-face-2.
You may use as many different faces as you like.

Then you can M-x customize-face RET gnus-face-1 RET to some monospaced
font, and gnus-face-2 used for the subject of messages to some
proportional font.

Bye,
Tassilo


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Re: gnus-summary-line-format when using non-fixed width font?

[Dave Abrahams]

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on Wed Jul 25 2012, moabi2000 <moabi2000-AT-gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Using a non-monospaced font makes reading mail and news far
> easier. However, it makes the summary line look awful since you can't
> just pad with spaces to make the date, author and subject line up. The
> arrows used for threads don't line up either.
>
> Is there any way to make things line up in the summary buffer when
> using a non-monospace font?

I get what I think are pretty good results, e.g.


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http://cl.ly/image/160H1Q0J2z3r

If you want to replicate this you can inspect my gnus configuration at
https://github.com/dabrahams/dwamacs/blob/master/settings/gnus-settings.el

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