From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jambunathan K Subject: Re: table alignment failed for Asian characters Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:06:26 +0530 Message-ID: <81vcrapklx.fsf@gmail.com> References: <4C630D7B-BD05-4ED4-98A6-5CC6308EED48@gmail.com> <4f2e5228-5cbf-4e4e-bdae-81e32f0017d9@email.android.com> <83sjmey1p5.fsf@yahoo.it> <69A7E2DF-5095-4E59-B5D3-29FDD406270F@gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:39861) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJR4f-00059d-QQ for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:37:03 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJR4a-0003N3-TG for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:36:53 -0400 Received: from mail-vw0-f41.google.com ([209.85.212.41]:42532) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RJR4a-0003Mx-Qb for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 10:36:48 -0400 Received: by vws16 with SMTP id 16so3078216vws.0 for ; Thu, 27 Oct 2011 07:36:48 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <69A7E2DF-5095-4E59-B5D3-29FDD406270F@gmail.com> (Carsten Dominik's message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2011 16:02:53 +0200") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Carsten Dominik Cc: Matt Lundin , Org Mode Mailing List Carsten Dominik writes: > On Oct 27, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > >> Torsten Wagner writes: >> >>> Well the FAQ tells me >>> what I thought already. I will post here a specific solution for >>> Japanese and it might be added to the FAQ later. Maybe others can >>> contribute to add Chinese, Korean and other languages. >> >> Personally I think that it does not woth to add a *specific* >> solution for the faq, who knows how many non-fixed-width *fonts* >> are out there ! ;-) > > No, but what would help is information on how to identify a font where > each character is an integer width. And maybe a few example fonts. If you do a C-h C-\ RET tamil-itrans RET you will see a nicely aligned table which gives translation table for tamil characters - (OK, Tamil is the language I speak) - which look like http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?msg=56;filename=temp.png;att=1;bug=9336 Each entry is a *single* character but it made up of as much as 3 glyphs (?) with each glyph being of fixed width(?). The alignment is produced by doing something like: ,---- See (find-file (locate-library "indian.el")) | (propertize "\t" 'display (list 'space :align-to clm)) `---- I wonder whether similar strategy could be adopted. ps: I don't understand much of what I am speaking. But I would like to be able to use Tamil tables in Orgmode tables even though I may never use it - sounds paradoxical isn't it. > - Carsten > >> >> But I leave the last word to Matt Lundin. (cc) >> >> Cheers, >> Giovanni > > - Carsten > > > > > --