Re: line drawing characters

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Greg Hill wrote:
 > I am using emacs (GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.7, X toolkit)) on
 > a unix system under X.

Not as good as Emacs 21.3 or 21.3.50 (CVS), but should be recent enuf.

 > I would like to create some simple line drawings by mixing line-drawing
 > characters along with ordinary text.  Surely the One True Editor is
 > capable of that, but I haven't been able to glean any useful information
 > on how to proceed from the Gnu Emacs Manual (Fifteenth Edition), the Gnu
 > Emacs Lisp Reference Manual, or anything I could find doing a Goolge
 > search.

1. These line drawing characters must belong to some character set
    e.g. Unicode http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2500.pdf

2. Once you've identified the character set you want to use, you need to
    figure out which Emacs coding system supports it.  Then you specify
    that coding system with `C-x RET c' when you edit your buffer/file.

3. Finally, you'll need how to input those characters while you're
    editing.  If your keyboard can enter them directly, `C-x RET k'
    should handle it; but you may need to install LEIM and rebuild Emacs
    and use `C-\'.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers