rnkn
Styiling olivetti's margins?
Hey, I've been building a minor mode that emulates a paginated word processor type view on top of olivetti mode, you can see it here. I've tried everything I can think of to get my page break overlays to extend into the margins olivetti is producing. Can you give me any hints on how I might go about getting some text in there that I can assign a background to?
Love the package by the way. :)
Cool idea!
I've had a quick look at your code and I think this might be the problem:
https://github.com/bradmont/page-view/blob/master/page_view.el#L244-L247
Here you're adding a display property of window-text-width, which doesn't include the width of the margins or fringes. I think you want window-total-width. But given you're working with display overlays it might be better to work in pixel sizes.
Let me know how you go!
Yeah, I think the overall problem is that overlays apply to text in the buffer, which is limited to what is within the editable part of the window. Increasing the width like that, the overlay just gets truncated and it doesn't make a difference. I tried to figure out how to get text to display in the margins, following these docs, which I have in my debug code but without success, the overlay just displays in the body area, and pushes the content text over to compensate.
Have you ever tried to display anything in the margins in olivetti? Are they somehow different or modified from emacs native margins? In my digging around, I tried setting left-margin-width and right-margin-width interactively, but it didn't change the way olivetti displayed.
I think you might have to put some text in the margin then put a display property on it to put a grey block the same width as the margin.
I redisplay some text in the margins here:
- https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode/blob/master/fountain-mode.el#L3735-L3749
- https://github.com/rnkn/fountain-mode/blob/master/fountain-mode.el#L3651-L3669
Thank you, this was exactly what I needed! I've got the pagebreaks working full-width now! :)
Hey I just pushed it to GitHub with an update demo screen cast if you want to see how it's looking. I'll close this issue too. Thanks for the help, if you don't mind I might wander back and pick your mind about some things you've done in fountain mode some time. :)
Cool! It's still rough around the edges but I'll gradually polish it as I use it too. :) Let me know if you have feedback.