From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Will Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs - W3m - Tables Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:13:36 +0100 Message-ID: <478E2D30.5060807@gmx.de> References: <5v66icF1kqmqrU1@mid.individual.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1200501687 772 80.91.229.12 (16 Jan 2008 16:41:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 16:41:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jan 16 17:41:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JFBKc-0006th-DG for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 17:41:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JFBKD-0001e5-IJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Jan 2008 11:41:13 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Trace: individual.net hkjVfNhta1/Iod4PNYwjOg9mZfA4kDJ6Pgd6JbgM5LGa/XIuI/ Cancel-Lock: sha1:aKovcsbxigOash8wLuBUvYp1gCU= User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:155349 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: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:50756 Archived-At: 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 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 >