Re: unicode box-drawing characters

[Per Bothner]

On 09/29/2016 11:56 PM, Gavin Smith wrote:
> On 28 September 2016 at 20:40, Per Bothner <address@hidden> wrote:
> > For me pdf output has relatively low priority (and dvi output
> > has zero priority), but it would be nice to have the correct output.
> > I could use png images of the output but that is obviously less desirable
> > (more hassle with lots of small image files, doesn't scale (zoom) as well,
> > takes more space, and text can't be selected).  Using @iftex to use an
> > image only in the tex case, but that's even more of a hassle and management
> > problem.
>
> I agree.
>
> Another idea is not to use the box-drawing characters for the sample
> output (I assume there is some option to Kawa not to use them).

The box-drawing characters is what makes for readable output of arrays
- which is especially desirable in documentation. They are used by mc and
work fine with emacs and every terminal emulator I've tried so far,

As an experiment I tried by-passing tex entirely:
  texinfo -> docbook -> fo ->pdf
The box-drawing characters make it through to the .fo file, but the fop
processor (fo -> pdf) didn't find a font with the box characters,
at least not with default options.  Presumably fixable.  There are also
some styling flaws, presumably also fixable.

I also tried the ebook-convert tool which is associated with the Calibre
tool and project.  It handled the box characters just fine, but
there were other problems.

I just found this earlier discussion:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-texinfo/2013-01/msg00001.html
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