Re: line drawing characters

[Kevin Rodgers]

Greg Hill wrote:
> I am using emacs (GNU Emacs 21.2.2 (sparc-sun-solaris2.7, X toolkit)) on
> a unix system under X.

Not as good as Emacs 21.3 or 21.3.50 (CVS), but should be recent enuf.

> 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.

1. These line drawing characters must belong to some character set
   e.g. Unicode http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2500.pdf

2. Once you've identified the character set you want to use, you need to
   figure out which Emacs coding system supports it.  Then you specify
   that coding system with `C-x RET c' when you edit your buffer/file.

3. Finally, you'll need how to input those characters while you're
   editing.  If your keyboard can enter them directly, `C-x RET k'
   should handle it; but you may need to install LEIM and rebuild Emacs
   and use `C-\'.

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Kevin Rodgers