Re: Emacs - W3m - Tables

[Will <schimpanski@gmx.de>]

You were very helpful. Option 2 works fine for me!

Thanks, Will

Chris McMahan skrev:
> The squares you see are a result of the font you're using. It doesn't
> have the characters in the fontset necessary to draw the table.
> 
> You have two options that I can think of:
> 
> 1. Use a different font within emacs that does support the full charset
>    Bitstream Sans Mono and DejaVu Sans Mono work well for me. The
>    DejaVu is actually a variant of the Bitstream with more characters
>    included. You can find the DejaVu font here:
>    http://sourceforge.net/projects/dejavu
> 
> 2. Use ASCII characters only to draw the tables. You then revert to
>    +, - and | characters to draw any tables and horizontal rules. They
>    don't look as clean, but will be guaranteed to work no matter what
>    font you use. You can change to this mode with the following
>    setting in your configuration:
>    (setq w3m-use-symbol nil)
> 
> I hope this helps!
> 
> - Chris
> 
> Will <schimpanski@gmx.de> writes:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'd like to view simple html tables within GNU Emacs using W3m.
>> This works well for simple text. However, if I want to look at tables
>> I get squared boxes instead of proper table borders.
>>
>> How can I tell Emacs/W3m to display it correctly?
>>
>> I am using GNU Emacs V22.1 on Windows XP. W3m is running under Cygwin.
>>
>> Best, Will
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