Re: an experiment with proportional-width fonts

Maybe I'm Missing The Point but Charles' approach seems wrongheaded to me. If I understand correctly Charles' approach is to work out at redisplay time which characters in a buffer need to be aligned with which other characters so that tabular data is displayed correctly. This is tricky and likely to be expensive. But isn't this exactly the problem that tabs are meant to solve? The package list example looks so bad with a proportional font because spaces are used instead of tabs. There's no reason that tabs couldn't be used instead. And frankly I don't think that the "int i; double d" problem is worth solving.