> Sure it does. First of all, you can lay text anywhere you want in a buffer, Does the emacs-api directly support this or is it just some hacked up solution e

> Sure it does. First of all, you can lay text anywhere you want in a buffer, Does the emacs-api directly support this or is it just some hacked up solution everyone must do on their own? Of course can you emulate boxes and any kind of layout-sytem, but whether it's a general supported solution or just some ugly hack that has no backing in the general culture of a software, makes a significant difference. It's the difference between 99% of all encountered content is problematic for accesability or just 1%.