Re: Lines to edges of \center-column

[David Wright]

On Sun 23 Apr 2017 at 00:03:36 (+0200), address@hidden wrote:
> 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 tried to provoke a problem, but I don't know my kanji from my kana,
and am not sure what you mean by "selectable".

The greatest zoom I can manage is 1600%, and I can't see the joins.
The H bars were just to follow each of your characters with something.

> 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.

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