Subject: bug#43272: 27.1; variable-pitch-mode misaligns org-mode heading tags

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 17:41:23 +0300

> From: Protesilaos Stavrou <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 08 Sep 2020 13:13:04 +0300
> 
> 1. Run 'emacs -Q'
> 2. Open a new Org file 'C-x C-f /tmp/test.org'
> 3. Insert the following contents:
> 
> * TODO this is a test                                                   :tag:
> * TODO here is another test                                             :tag:
> 
> The tags should align to the right with the standard monospaced font.
> 
> 4. Run 'M-x variable-pitch-mode'.
> 5. The tags are now misaligned.
> 
> Please see attached screenshots for the before and after states of the
> 'variable-pitch-mode' activation.

This is the expected behavior: with variable-pitch fonts, characters
no longer have the same width, so aligning text by counting columns no
longer works.  You need pixel-level alignment.

This should be fixed in Org, I think.