From: tlaronde@polynum.com
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: [9fans] Equivalent of unix vis(1) with font
Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 10:29:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130502082914.GA304@polynum.com> (raw)
Hello,
I was wondering if someone has already done the following for Plan9:
Allowing to render visually non visual characters (controls and blanks)
but not with a vis(1) encoding, but by substituting the font, that is
switching to a font that has, as subfonts, the font already used for
display, but filling supplementary glyphes for the "invisible"
characters, à la EOF, with say a '->|' for a tab, a '|_|' for a space
(it is used by D.E.K. and Silvio Levy' CWEB rendering for strings in
source), a "diagonal" '^@' etc. for controls or whatever?
--
Thierry Laronde <tlaronde +AT+ polynum +dot+ com>
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