Re: Prose with markup needs more line spacing [legibility 5/6]

2020-02-10 Thread Bastien
Samuel Wales writes: > nil has always worked for me. i didn't think a new feature was > necessary, but i am curious. what does your change do? (See the other message I just sent for a quick explanation.) -- Bastien

Re: Prose with markup needs more line spacing [legibility 5/6]

2020-02-10 Thread Samuel Wales
hi bastien, i deeply apologize. that statement was not clear. as much as possible i will be more clear in the future. i appreciate your looking into it. nil has always worked for me. i didn't think a new feature was necessary, but i am curious. what does your change do? samuel

Re: Prose with markup needs more line spacing [legibility 5/6]

2020-02-09 Thread Bastien
Hi Samuel, Samuel Wales writes: > i'd sure like to change physical indentation in org to don't. please try (setq org-adapt-indentation 'headline-data) from latest master branch, and see how it behaves in a new org buffer. -- Bastien

Re: Prose with markup needs more line spacing [legibility 5/6]

2020-02-09 Thread Bastien
Texas Cyberthal writes: > #+begin_src elisp > ;; prose with markup needs more line spacing > (defun leo-space-lines () > (setq line-spacing 0.175)) > (add-hook 'org-mode-hook 'leo-space-lines) > #+end_src This can definitely be part of the Emacs theme you can write to target prose writers.

Re: Prose with markup needs more line spacing [legibility 5/6]

2020-02-04 Thread Texas Cyberthal
If a noob is using Emacs for prose, he's using Org, or at least he should be. Those using other modes for prose are probably more advanced. Regardless of how it defines itself, today Emacs is primarily an IDE for programmers. So prose-friendly defaults are specific to Org. Emacs doesn't need to

Re: Prose with markup needs more line spacing [legibility 5/6]

2020-02-04 Thread Samuel Wales
i get some of your points in these emails. i'd sure like to change physical indentation in org to don't. and i think newcomers and advanced alike might want to have org sub superscript be off by default. one user on this list recently exported a signature that contained a version number that

Re: Prose with markup needs more line spacing [legibility 5/6]

2020-02-04 Thread Texas Cyberthal
If someone is using optional packages that add markup such as underlining to code, and the markup is so prevalent that he needs extra line spacing, he is advanced enough to know how to adjust that. Line spacing preference is idiosyncratic, and spacing varies by face as well. I propose adding an

Re: Prose with markup needs more line spacing [legibility 5/6]

2020-02-03 Thread Adam Porter
Texas Cyberthal writes: > Code requires less line spacing. It has more whitespace, fewer capital > letters, and no markup such as underlining. Code is read differently > than prose; it requires less sequential scanning. Code certainly can have markup like underlining. For example,

Prose with markup needs more line spacing [legibility 5/6]

2020-02-03 Thread Texas Cyberthal
Code requires less line spacing. It has more whitespace, fewer capital letters, and no markup such as underlining. Code is read differently than prose; it requires less sequential scanning. Prose has big blocks of text with taller capital letters that must be scanned sequentially. The tall bits