Re: customizing Org for legibility

[Samuel Wales]

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 <address@hidden> 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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