Re: How to define this summary-line-format?

[leon <sdl.web@gmail.com>]

Sébastien Kirche <sebastien.kirche.no@spam.free.fr.invalid> writes:

> At 18:11 on nov 7 2005, leon said :
>
>> I mean the dashed lines in the summary window. Those separate date & I
>> name etc. I tried using '|' but it looked like continuous line. I
>> really like the dashed line.
>
> Oh, then those lines come from the "%4{|%}" parts of my
> gnus-summary-line-format. Basically it makes gnus place a pipe char
> between the fields.
> I suppose that the dash style is due to some characters that are bigger
> than the pipe and it makes Emacs adapt the line height.
>
>> > With a custom date format :
>> > ;; affichage de la date en relatif
>> > (setq gnus-user-date-format-alist
>> > 	  '(((gnus-seconds-today) . " %k:%M") ;dans la journée = 14:39
>> > 		((+ 86400 (gnus-seconds-today)) . "hier %k:%M")
>> > 		;hier = hier 14:39
>> > 		((+ 604800 (gnus-seconds-today)) . "%a %k:%M")
>> > 		;dans la semaine = sam 14:39
>> > 		((gnus-seconds-month) . "%a %d") ;ce mois = sam 28
>> > 		((gnus-seconds-year) . "%b %d") ;durant l'année = mai 28 (t
>> > 		. "%b %d '%y"))) ;le reste = mai 28 '05
>> > 
>> 
>> Get this error: "symbol's value as variable is void: gnus-face-5"
>> My knowledge of gnus doesn't allow me to debug this. 
>
> Sorry that error comes also from my gnus-summary-line-format where the
> %4{xxx} expressions make gnus use the corresponding gnus-face-4. So the
> %first error mentionning gnus-face-5 is caused by the %5 in first line
> %of the format that places the messages flags.
> I forget to refer to them.
>
> To correct that you can either rid the "%number{" and the corresponding
> "}" or you can define your own faces.
> E.g. :
>
>     (copy-face 'default 'mysubject)
>     (setq gnus-face-1 'mysubject)
>   
>     (copy-face 'default 'mytime)
>     (set-face-foreground 'mytime "indianred4")
>     (setq gnus-face-2 'mytime)
> ...  

Now it works like a charm. Also I set gnus-face-4 to a small font 6x12
to get a dashed '|'.

>
>> [...]
>> I highly appreciate your help! However I got some weird boxes instead
>> of the beautiful threading. The screenshot is here 
>> (http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/sl392/gnus.png). 
>> 
>> I'm running gnus 5.10.6 from emacs-snapshot-gtk in debian
>> unstable. It's actually 22.0.50.1. I think it should have utf-8
>> support. Maybe I'm missing something in the configure. Any ideas?
>
> The hollow boxes show that Emacs did not found a suitable font to
> display the corresponding character. In this case it's unicode chars.
>
> BTW : for a char you can obtain some details about the code and the
> rendering font with C-u C-x = on the char.
>
> Try to get the unifont Debian package that should help to display unicode
> chars (it helped me with Debian to get them).

apt-get install unifont fixes the problem.

>
>> Again, thanks very much
>
> :) I'm glad to provide those settings that I carefully collected for
> months from many different information sources, including the french
> emacs group fr.comp.applications.emacs, the Big8 comp.emacs,
> gnu.emacs.help, gnu.emacs.gnus *and* the emacs-wiki
> (http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki)
>
> HTH
> -- 
> Sébastien Kirche

I'm grateful for your generosity. Now my gnus looks a lot more
pleasing. Look here: http://people.pwf.cam.ac.uk/sl392/gnus3.png

-- 
Cheers