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From: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
To: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Orgmode and Unicode characters
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 15:51:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2E6056BD-7B42-40F5-88A9-BD40B7C89B0A@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikszEop=J3aiTsOu+XTD+DEo3LxOukb0jt61txh@mail.gmail.com>


On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Dov Grobgeld wrote:

> Even though this announcement looks very cool,

What does "this announcement" refer to, Dov?

- Carsten

> this again reminded me of something I've been thinking off when  
> using orgmode. And that is the use of unicode characters. With the  
> latest versions of emacs that support unicode and with rich fonts  
> such as DejaVu Monospace, it is as easy to use unicode characters as  
> ascii. What I was thinking of is that the current ascii graphics of  
> e.g. tables could automatically be switched to box drawing  
> characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_characters)  
> when pressing C-c or Tab. Other characters that could be used are  
> automatic replacement of leading asterisks to various bullets. Each  
> indentation level could be given a different bullets. E.g. "*"==▸,  
> "**"==●, etc. I'm sure that arrows and various brackets may also be  
> useful for various contexts.
>
> Of course the use of these characters would be configurable and  
> would be turned off automatically for buffers that are not UTF-8  
> encoded.
>
> Perhaps I'll one day learn the inner workings of org-mode  
> sufficiently to do this myself, but if there is someone who  
> meanwhile wants to pick up the idea, you're welcome!
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 09:05, Nathan Neff <nathan.neff@gmail.com>  
> wrote:
> Much easier to read, and I love the nesting/indenting of
> sub-headings.
>
> http://nateneff.com/   - Need to understand org-mode-clockreport- 
> rules.html
>
> --Nate
>
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- Carsten

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-12-06 14:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-06  9:19 Orgmode and Unicode characters Dov Grobgeld
2010-12-06 14:32 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2010-12-06 14:58   ` Eric Schulte
2010-12-06 18:36     ` Dan Davison
2010-12-06 20:12     ` Dov Grobgeld
2010-12-07  9:41       ` Eric S Fraga
2010-12-06 14:51 ` Carsten Dominik [this message]
2010-12-06 20:14   ` Dov Grobgeld

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