From: Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org>
Subject: Re: Use images instead of glyphs for fancy threading?
Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2006 12:31:09 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ws7j2zvs8i.fsf@stone.tss.usg.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zmgh5w5y.fsf@nokile.rath.org>
Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus@rath.org> writes:
> Mark Plaksin <happy@mcplaksin.org> writes:
>
>> When graphics are available, does it make sense to use images
>> instead of glyphs for fancy thread display? I don't know anything
>> about using images in Emacs but it seems like this would be a lot
>> easier than making glyphs work.
>>
>> I finally got nice thread glyphs working in X by following these
>> hints: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/GnusFormatting
>
> Why not just use unicode characters? This works fine here:
>
> gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%z%4L %(%[%-20,20f%]%) %B%s\n"
> gnus-sum-thread-tree-root "● "
> gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-indent "◎ "
> gnus-sum-thread-tree-leaf-with-other "├─► "
> gnus-sum-thread-tree-vertical "│"
> gnus-sum-thread-tree-single-leaf "╰─► "
> gnus-sum-thread-tree-indent " "
> gnus-sum-thread-tree-false-root "○ "
> gnus-summary-same-subject ""
I finally got around to trying this and it gives me square boxes.
>> I don't understand much about fonts and such but the whole process
>> seems unnecessarily hard and fragile. If I change fonts, I think my
>> fancy glyphs might break. And I assume I need a separate setup if I
>> want to to have fancy glyphs when I log in via ssh and run Emacs (or
>> multi-tty's [1] emacslient) on a tty.
>
> As long as your font has the necessary characters, AFAIK there should
> be no problems.
I guess my font (Terminus) doesn't have the necessary characters.
That's why I posted my initial question--if images were used they would
simply work everywhere that graphics was available.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-29 16:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-13 2:35 Mark Plaksin
2006-06-13 7:53 ` Nikolaus Rath
2006-06-29 16:31 ` Mark Plaksin [this message]
2006-06-30 7:02 ` Frank Schmitt
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