Re: Lines to edges of \center-column

[caagr98]

That's certainly a possibility, it's not working too well. I have to do 
the alignment manually, and I can't change the line style. Also, it's a 
bit buggy: putting box-drawers after kanji works fine, but if it's after 
a kana, it's not selectable, and it has a different width. There are 
also small gaps between the segments at certain zoom levels.

I think \fill-with-pattern seems somewhat related to what I want, but 
I'm guessing that one's implemented natively?

P.S. I think you're exaggerating with the encoding details.

On 04/22/17 23:46, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 22 Apr 2017 at 22:22:30 (+0200), address@hidden wrote:
> > Is there some way to make a center-column draw lines from slightly
> > outside the text to the edges of the column (see example)?
> >
> > In this specific case, I have both English and Japanese names for
> > stuff, and without those lines, I think it's a bit unclear exactly
> > what part the Japanese refers to.
>
> You could just put Unicode box-drawing characters to either side
> of the Japanese characters, eg ━ is BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY HORIZONTAL
> but there are various weights, and corners etc in the same region
> as this one (Hex code point 2501, Decimal code point 9473,
> Hex UTF-8 bytes E2 94 81, Octal UTF-8 bytes 342 224 201,
> UTF-8 bytes as Latin-1 characters bytes â <94> <81>
> )
>
> Cheers,
> David.