From 0fb3fc92b33a6adb657194e056b2910058478022 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Abrahamsen Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 11:46:23 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Remove obsolete "Wide Characters" section of Gnus manual * doc/misc/gnus.texi: This hasn't been valid since 2016. --- doc/misc/gnus.texi | 19 ------------------- 1 file changed, 19 deletions(-) diff --git a/doc/misc/gnus.texi b/doc/misc/gnus.texi index c8ac7f0a7c2..a96be30cd61 100644 --- a/doc/misc/gnus.texi +++ b/doc/misc/gnus.texi @@ -839,7 +839,6 @@ Formatting Variables * Formatting Fonts:: Making the formatting look colorful and nice. * Positioning Point:: Moving point to a position after an operation. * Tabulation:: Tabulating your output. -* Wide Characters:: Dealing with wide characters. Image Enhancements @@ -22356,7 +22355,6 @@ lots of percentages everywhere. * Formatting Fonts:: Making the formatting look colorful and nice. * Positioning Point:: Moving point to a position after an operation. * Tabulation:: Tabulating your output. -* Wide Characters:: Dealing with wide characters. @end menu Currently Gnus uses the following formatting variables: @@ -22611,23 +22609,6 @@ This is the soft tabulator. 50 will be removed. This is the hard tabulator. -@node Wide Characters -@subsection Wide Characters - -Fixed width fonts in most countries have characters of the same width. -Some countries, however, use Latin characters mixed with wider -characters---most notable East Asian countries. - -The problem is that when formatting, Gnus assumes that if a string is 10 -characters wide, it'll be 10 Latin characters wide on the screen. In -these countries, that's not true. - -@vindex gnus-use-correct-string-widths -To help fix this, you can set @code{gnus-use-correct-string-widths} to -@code{t}. This makes buffer generation slower, but the results will be -prettier. The default value is @code{nil}. - - @node Window Layout @section Window Layout @cindex window layout -- 2.39.2