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From: Oliver Scholz <alkibiades@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: Unicode box-drawing chars
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 14:04:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m34rcuumcj.fsf@ID-87814.user.dfncis.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m3ptvieklv.fsf@defun.localdomain

Jesper Harder <harder@myrealbox.com> writes:
[...]
> It's a pitty we can't assume that everyone has a unicode font, so we
> could make some attractive defaults in Gnus.  

Yes. And even when there is a unicode font, it is quite possible that
it does not contain the box-drawing glyphs.

Is it possible to check from lisp if a font actually contains a glyph?

> Hmm, the tree display could probably also be made to look a lot prettier
> than today with some box-drawing glyphs.

I fancy some additional widgets for widget.el, too. Common GUI-stuff
like a tree-widget or tabs ... all done in plain text with the
box-drawing chars.

> xpost & fu² gnu.emacs.gnus

Ignored, because my question is not specific to Gnus.

    -- Oliver

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  reply	other threads:[~2002-09-13 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-09-12 14:42 Unicode box-drawing chars Oliver Scholz
2002-09-12 13:27 ` Jesper Harder
2002-09-12 14:09   ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-13  1:15     ` Galen Boyer
2002-09-13  1:36     ` Jesper Harder
2002-09-13 12:04       ` Oliver Scholz [this message]
2002-09-14 20:49         ` Jesper Harder
2002-09-12 13:56 ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-12 15:44   ` Roman Belenov
2002-09-13 11:57   ` Oliver Scholz
2002-09-13 16:14     ` Kai Großjohann
2002-09-14  7:46       ` Graphics in Emacs (was: Unicode box-drawing chars) Oliver Scholz
2002-09-14  6:59         ` Stefan Monnier <foo@acm.com>
2002-09-15 19:58           ` Oliver Scholz

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