From: Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net>
To: Steffan Iverson <steffan.iverson@gmail.com>
Cc: Bastien <bzg@gnu.org>, Org Mode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: mis-alignment in org-tables with Tibetan characters
Date: Tue, 11 Feb 2014 11:12:07 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8761omgx6g.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADCudd5VmTzM3XR2BiVnZJPNodA-Pi+pYdUPZmV3DSW64iaLzA@mail.gmail.com> (Steffan Iverson's message of "Mon, 10 Feb 2014 18:50:26 -0800")
Ah yes, this won't work if your font draws characters at variable
widths. I use Chinese a lot, and some Chinese fonts will still create
misalignment, simply because a Chinese character as drawn as 192% the
width of an ascii character. Dunno how to get around that.
On 02/11/14 10:50 AM, Steffan Iverson wrote:
> Thanks Eric - I've used this patch but I doesn't seem to solve the
> problem. I'm working on an earlier suggestion by Michael about the
> unicode type that my Tibetan font is. I very much appreciate all this
> help!
>
> Steffan
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 8:09 PM, Eric Abrahamsen <
> eric@ericabrahamsen.net> wrote:
>
> Bastien <bzg@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Eric Abrahamsen <eric@ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
> >
> >> I've been using that patch or something like it for nearly a
> year now,
> >> with no adverse effects. I'm on the road right now, give me a
> day and
> >> I'll take a closer look at what I've got...
> >
> > Great -- thanks in advance! I'll then wait before releasing a
> new
> > minor version and merging it into Emacs for Emacs 24.4.
> >
> > To other core maintainers: if you see important issues that
> needs to
> > be fixed in maint, let me know.
>
> Sorry this took a while to get to...
>
> I think it was a little simpler than I thought -- at least I hope
> that's
> true, and I'm not missing something really obvious. There are two
> patches attached, a simple one that handles re-justification of
> table
> fields during field movement, and another that allows for
> narrowing of
> columns with double-width strings. The second patch is uglier,
> and
> doesn't work 100% well (you get misalignment if you try to narrow
> a
> double-wide to an odd number of single-width characters), but
> it's
> better than nothing.
>
> Please test!
>
> Eric
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-11 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-03 3:29 mis-alignment in org-tables with Tibetan characters Steffan Iverson
2014-02-03 5:33 ` Steffan Iverson
2014-02-04 18:13 ` Michael Brand
2014-02-05 0:00 ` Steffan Iverson
2014-02-05 5:35 ` Michael Brand
2014-02-06 13:03 ` Michael Brand
2014-02-03 9:20 ` Bastien
2014-02-04 14:18 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-02-04 16:35 ` Bastien
2014-02-10 4:09 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-02-11 2:50 ` Steffan Iverson
2014-02-11 3:12 ` Eric Abrahamsen [this message]
2014-05-24 10:01 ` Bastien
2014-05-25 5:14 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2014-05-25 5:18 ` Bastien
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