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Re: [ELPA] New package: valign.el
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Yuan Fu |
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Re: [ELPA] New package: valign.el |
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Sat, 5 Dec 2020 17:50:51 -0500 |
> On Dec 5, 2020, at 2:17 PM, William Xu <william.xwl@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Alexander Adolf <alexander.adolf@condition-alpha.com> writes:
>
>> To do what this package offers, you will need to do "edge detection" on
>> the surrounding material in order to know which parts of the surrounding
>> text to stretch. This seems somewhat feasible in tables, because the
>> "edges" are readily marked up, and equally where "surrounding material"
>> ends.
>
> That being said, I think the same method may be also applied to calendar
> buffer, when the weekdays are shown using non-ascii characters. There,
> the space might be used as the "bar" of the table.
>
> I wonder if there is even some package that shows each calendar month in
> a table..
>
>
> William
I think it should be relatively easy for the packages to align code-generated
contents themselves, because they are already aligning columns by padding
spaces, all they need to do is to change the padding spaces to a space with a
:align-to property.
Yuan