> Date: Sat, 6 Feb 2010 17:42:36 +0200 > From: "Ehud Karni" <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected], [email protected] > > > . variable fonts and faces > > . glyphs that come from overlays, `display' properties, images, etc. > > . `wrap-prefix' and `line-prefix' variables > > . composite characters > > . tab expansion > > > > (probably forgot a few). Note that the last one affects text > > terminals as well, so even there you cannot simply count characters. > > I see your point. I don't think variable fonts, tabs or composite > characters are a real problem (tabs are taken into account in > fill-paragraph, and the others can be handled by setting the > `right-margin' to a value below the screen width).
How much below? There's no way of knowing that. A font used by a face can be arbitrarily large. > > The problem is that, for the reasons I explain above and in a previous > > message in this thread, what you suggest will still end up overflowing > > the margin sometimes, and we are back with the same problem. (If I > > understood your suggestion, that is; if not, please point out where > > I'm wrong.) > > I understand, but since I'm using wide screens (130 columns at work, > over 180 at home), I can set the my line length for the virtual > `fill-paragraph' to a lower value (say 110) and hope that it won't > overflow, even if it is exceeded by some characters. Well, that's hardly a general solution. _______________________________________________ emacs-bidi mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-bidi
