From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kevin Rodgers Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: line drawing characters Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004 18:04:14 -0600 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <2udfo4F28v06rU1@uni-berlin.de> References: <2uab8bF270qltU1@uni-berlin.de> <2uae8jF27urf2U1@uni-berlin.de> <2ucvheF29ovgrU1@uni-berlin.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1099008445 11258 80.91.229.6 (29 Oct 2004 00:07:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2004 00:07:25 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Oct 29 02:07:13 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CNKIT-0005Qz-00 for ; Fri, 29 Oct 2004 02:07:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CNKQI-0002Sz-6o for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Oct 2004 20:15:18 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 27 Original-X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de 2ho389DROymJwnZUdOB09A9m9SCx2JOstaHSGh4WHrxui4mhE= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040916) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:126182 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:21562 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:21562 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