From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thibaut Verron Subject: Re: Org-mode Tables not showing correctly in graphical emacs Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 08:09:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20140626065419.GC1208@jeppesen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:37971) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X06A7-0002CM-Hz for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 05:40:17 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X06A2-0006iK-2n for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 05:40:11 -0400 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:55003) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X06A1-0006d9-TT for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 05:40:06 -0400 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1X069y-0004pz-W9 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:40:03 +0200 Received: from ilithye.calsci.lip6.fr ([132.227.66.71]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:40:02 +0200 Received: from thibaut.verron by ilithye.calsci.lip6.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 26 Jun 2014 11:40:02 +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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org David Rose jeppesen.com> writes: > > Hi, > > I am not sure if this is an actual bug or if I am just missing some > new setting/configuration option, but when in a graphical emacs window > org-mode table alignments are way off, yet when in a 'terminal' window > emacs session tables are shown as expected. > > Just as I am not sure if this is a bug, I am not sure if it is in > org-mode or emacs itself, so I apologise if this is not the right list > for this. I have tried searching on-line for an answer but have nto > been able to find this which is why I believe I might just be missing > a setting somewhere that I did not need before. > > I am attaching my .emacs file as well as a screen shot showing the > issue I am speaking of. In the screen shot the window on the left is > a graphical instance of emacs, and the one on the right is started > from a terminal window (emacs -nw --no-desktop). Both are using the > same file. > > My emacs version is: 24.3.1 (x86_64-slackware-linux-gnu with GTK+ > version 2.24.17 > > I am currently using an older version of org-mode as I try to > reconfigure my custom latex document classes over to the newer > version. Org mode version is: 7.8.11 > > I have tested this with the newest org-mode version as well though and > received the same results as I currently get. > > Thank you in advance for any assistance, and I again apologise if this > is not the correct list for this. > > Sincerely, > Hello, It seems that you are using a proportional font (different width for each character) as opposed to a monospace one. For example, compare the width of '<' on line 2 with the 'J' below. Table alignment usually works by ensuring all cells in a column contain the same number of characters, but that only works for monospace fonts. The terminal is using monospace fonts by default. --- Thibaut Verron