> From: Jonathan Coxhead wrote:
> There various ways to express the semantic "advance to next column"
> in plain text, chiefly:
>
> ---insert enough spaces to make the lines line up;
Doesn't this assume fixed, or at least known width, glyphs?
And do you take into account non spacing glyphs?
What about scripts that can be written vertically or horizontally?
Scripts where the glyph form representing a character(and thus its width)
is dependant on context?
Making columns line up by inserting spaces is not a good idea.
- Chris
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