From: Darlan Cavalcante Moreira <darcamo@gmail.com>
To: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Orgmode and Unicode characters
Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 11:32:59 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4cfcf421.0e3f970a.5d5c.fffff5c2@mx.google.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTikszEop=J3aiTsOu+XTD+DEo3LxOukb0jt61txh@mail.gmail.com>
If changing the actual character in the file is be the best option (maybe
it could cause problems for the exporters), then an approach similar to
org-pretty-entities could be used for this.
--
Darlan
At Mon, 6 Dec 2010 11:19:55 +0200,
Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Even though this announcement looks very cool, 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<http://nateneff.com/org-mode-clockreport-rules.html>
> >
> > --Nate
> >
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-06 14:33 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 [this message]
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
2010-12-06 20:14 ` Dov Grobgeld
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