Re: graphical manuals

[Nate Bargmann]

Hi James.

I am far from an expert so if this is dismissed out of hand, no problem.

Looking at the railroad diagram, I wonder if there are enough drawing
characters in UTF-8 that they could be used for the diagrams rather than
generating image files that would likely not be useful for terminal
output.  For use in manual pages I would think there would be some
limitations related to terminal width as from my experience man(1) will
adjust to the terminal width (personally I have MANWIDTH=80 so I can
read a nice format no matter if my terminal is much wider which it
usually is).

Food for thought, perhaps.

- Nate

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