Re: an experiment with proportional-width fonts

cgw> How can I tell, without looking ahead to the next line, that that "d" cgw> is subject to columnar alignment? I'm hoping somebody comes up with an cgw> absolutely brilliant suggestion here... in the meanwhile I'll keep on cgw> tinkering. You have to be able to backtrack. When you read the next line, with its two spaces, you know you might have to go back and align previous line(s) as well. Single pass won't work. It'll be expensive. But computers are fast. We also have to make sure only to do this in source code and not in text mode. Martin