On Fri, 08 Feb 2019 15:45:15 +0200 Eli Zaretskii via Unicode <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From: Egmont Koblinger <[email protected]> > > Date: Fri, 8 Feb 2019 13:30:42 +0100 > > Cc: Richard Wordingham <[email protected]>, > > unicode Unicode Discussion <[email protected]> > > > > Hi Eli, > > > > > Not sure why. There are terminal emulators out there which > > > support proportional fonts. > > > > Well, of course, a terminal emulator can load any font, even > > proportional, but as it places them in the grid, it will look ugly > > as hell > > Maybe so, but the original text was this: > > Emacs and 'M-x term' are the route to take if one only has > proportional fonts. > > Which I don't understand, since the terminal emulator in Emacs doesn't > do anything special about proportional fonts, AFAIK. As a terminal emulator, it does. It abandons straight columns to honour the spacing glyphs' widths. It neither inappropriately truncates nor inappropriately overlaps glyphs. These avoided treatments don't just make text ugly; they can make it unreadable. Richard.
