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1 boxdraw |
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4 Summary |
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6 Custom rendering of lines/blocks/braille characters for gapless alignmen… |
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8 Example |
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10 Lines/blocks, tmux splitter, braille "graphics". The top one is with box… |
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11 [](st-boxdraw_v2.png) |
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14 Description |
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16 Graphic lines and blocks characters such as those used by `dialog`, `tre… |
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17 `tmux` etc sometimes align with gaps - which doesn't look very nice. Thi… |
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18 depend on font, size, scaling, and other factors. |
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20 Braille is also increasingly used for graphics (`mapscii`, `vtop`, `gnup… |
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21 etc), and may look or align nicer when rendered as "pixels" instead of d… |
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23 This patch adds options to render most of the lines/blocks characters an… |
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24 the braille ones without using the font so that they align perfectly reg… |
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25 of font, size or other configuration values. |
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27 Supported codepoints are U2500 - U259F except dashes and diagonals, and … |
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29 See also: unicode references |
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30 [U2500.pdf](http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2500.pdf), |
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31 [U2580.pdf](http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2580.pdf), |
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32 [U2800.pdf](http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U2800.pdf), |
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33 and example pages |
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34 [UTF-8-demo.txt](https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-demo… |
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35 and |
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36 [libvte test page](https://github.com/GNOME/vte/blob/master/doc/boxes.tx… |
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38 Notes: |
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40 * The download is a `git --format-patch` file. It can be applied either … |
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41 `git am ...`, or with `patch -p1 < ...`. |
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42 * boxdraw/braille are disabled by default and configured via `config.h`. |
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43 You may need to copy the boxdraw lines from `config.def.h` to `config.… |
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45 Download |
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47 * [st-boxdraw_v2-0.8.3.diff](st-boxdraw_v2-0.8.3.diff) |
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48 * [st-boxdraw_v2-0.8.5.diff](st-boxdraw_v2-0.8.5.diff) |
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50 History |
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51 ------- |
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52 * boxdraw v2-0.8.3: no code changed. Only rebased and adds patch meta-in… |
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53 improved conflict resolution when `git am -3` is used. |
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54 * boxdraw v2-0.8.2: adds shades, braille (U28XX), configurable bold. |
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55 * [st-boxdraw_v2-0.8.2.diff](st-boxdraw_v2-0.8.2.diff) |
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56 * boxdraw (v1): U2500-U259F except dashes/diagonals/shades. Bold is thic… |
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57 * [st-boxdraw-20181101-30ec9a3.diff](st-boxdraw-20181101-30ec9a3.diff) |
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59 Author |
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61 * Avi Halachmi (:avih) - [https://github.com/avih](https://github.com/av… |
