Carsten Dominik <carsten.domi...@gmail.com> writes: > On Oct 27, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Giovanni Ridolfi wrote: > >> Torsten Wagner <torsten.wag...@gmail.com> 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 > > > > > --