Re: line drawing characters

[Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com>]

At 10:58 PM +0200 10/28/04, Pascal Bourguignon wrote:
>Greg Hill <ghill@synergymicro.com> writes:
>
>>  I am using emacs (GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.7, X toolkit))
>>  on a unix system under X.
>>
>>  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.
>>
>>  Can anyone offer me any tips?
>
>M-x picture-mode RET
>C-c \ hello C-c / word!

Thanks, but that is not what I had in mind.  I am talking about using 
special line-drawing characters that are designed for that purpose, 
and are not part of the normal ASCII set.

--Greg