Re: customizing Org for legibility

[Texas Cyberthal <texas.cyberthal@gmail.com>]

> this is really impressive.  does it have a fill column?

That seems to be a quote from Zamboni's page. AFAIK, visual line mode
is the opposite of using a fill column.

#+begin_quote
i would be over the moon if you could make headers in the agenda variable pitch.
not only would it look better and be consistent with the outline, but it would
conserve space.
#+end_quote

I think headers in the agenda should remain fixed pitch, so that its
table aspects align correctly. Headers should be kept concise for
agenda compatibility. That's why I use non-standard syntax for
headings. E.g., I'd title this email chain thus:

tech | org-mode@ mail list | prose legibility | 2020-01

I don't recognize the other questions you're asking and suspect
they're for Zamboni.

Also, in my last email I miswrote: it's mixed-pitch not mixed-mode.

On Sat, Feb 1, 2020 at 4:13 AM Samuel Wales <samologist@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> i get the sense spacemacs has brought a lot of new users to emacs.  i
> don't use it but i have comments on your interesting and welcome
> beauty tips.
>
> i wasn't clear on the difference between beautifying list markers and
> using org bullets.
>
> this is really impressive.  does it have a fill column?  "... wrap
> around nicely in the window according to their proportional-font size,
> instead of at a fixed character count...".
>
> i would be over the moon if you could make headers in the agenda
> variable pitch.  not only would it look better and be consistent with
> the outline, but it would conserve space.
>
> also, i would remove the second column, which seems not to do anything.
>
> also, i removed colons from some columns in the agenda and think it
> looks better.  also i aligned all items.  also, i made bare active
> tses use a leader.  also i made everything more compact except
> categories which i widened.  also, i removed [xd.] in leaders.
>
> curious what the brackets mean in
>    ("PROPOSAL"     . "orange")
>    ("[PROPOSAL]"   . "orange")
>
> what does reformatting a buffer change?
>
> could tags be fixed to stay at a column by counting pixels?
>
> thank you for the tips.
>
>
> On 1/31/20, Texas Cyberthal <texas.cyberthal@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I aim to popularize Spacemacs as a personal info manager. Next task is
> > the Org configuration layer.
> >
> > As preparation, I wrote a post critiquing Org's out-of-the-box
> > legibility. I believe a default configuration should cater to
> > beginners, since they're least likely to know how to customize. On the
> > other hand, maybe a package should set defaults to the median user and
> > leave beginner intake to distributions.
> >
> > Along the way, I discovered mixed-pitch, which fixed most of my
> > complaint. It's quite obscure. I'd like to include it in Spacemacs'
> > Org layer.
> >
> > I'm sharing my thoughts to see whether I'm missing anything else.
> > https://cyberthal-ghost.nfshost.com/configuring-org-for-readable-prose-is-too-complicated/
> >
> >
>
>
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