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Re: [groff] Advice wanted on drawing a file tree with pic
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Ralph Corderoy |
Subject: |
Re: [groff] Advice wanted on drawing a file tree with pic |
Date: |
Wed, 06 Jun 2018 12:39:29 +0100 |
Hi Branden,
> I'm trying to help out another project (quilt) with some
> non-portability in one of their man pages. Right now they're
> embedding raw UTF-8 codepoints into text to use line-drawing
> characters to depict a file hierarchy.
https://manned.org/quilt.1#head7 shows
work/
├── patches/
│ ├── series (list of patches to apply)
│ ├── patch1.diff (one particular patch)
│ ├── patch2.diff
│ └── ...
├── .pc/
│ ├── .quilt_patches (content of QUILT_PATCHES)
│ ├── .quilt_series (content of QUILT_SERIES)
│ ├── patch1.diff/ (copy of patched files)
│ │ └── ...
│ ├── patch2.diff/
│ │ └── ...
│ └── ...
└── ...
Indentation alone would seem sufficient to expose the hierarchy,
but if they are intent on drawing lines.
> Therefore please critique the following PIC.
pic seems overkill. It seems to me they need three strings defined that
render to the same width.
VER | │
TEE |-- ├──
ELL '-- └──
A replacement shows it covers their tree.
work/
TEE patches/
VER TEE series (list of patches to apply)
VER TEE patch1.diff (one particular patch)
VER TEE patch2.diff
VER ELL ...
TEE .pc/
VER TEE .quilt_patches (content of QUILT_PATCHES)
VER TEE .quilt_series (content of QUILT_SERIES)
VER TEE patch1.diff/ (copy of patched files)
VER VER ELL ...
VER TEE patch2.diff/
VER VER ELL ...
VER ELL ...
ELL ...
--
Cheers, Ralph.
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