Re: Orgmode and Unicode characters

From: Dov Grobgeld <dov.grobgeld@gmail.com>
To: Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Orgmode and Unicode characters
Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 22:14:59 +0200	[thread overview]
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It was the posting by Nathan Neff which I am sure that I totally
misinterpret, but used as an excuse for my blurb. :-)

Dov

On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 16:51, Carsten Dominik <carsten.dominik@gmail.com>wrote:

>
> 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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