Re: [Orgmode] Orgmode and Unicode characters

[Carsten Dominik]

On Dec 6, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Dov Grobgeld wrote:

> Even though this announcement looks very cool,

What does "this announcement" refer to, Dov?

- Carsten

> this again reminded me of something I've been thinking off when  
> using orgmode. And that is the use of unicode characters. With the  
> latest versions of emacs that support unicode and with rich fonts  
> such as DejaVu Monospace, it is as easy to use unicode characters as  
> ascii. What I was thinking of is that the current ascii graphics of  
> e.g. tables could automatically be switched to box drawing  
> characters (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_characters)  
> when pressing C-c or Tab. Other characters that could be used are  
> automatic replacement of leading asterisks to various bullets. Each  
> indentation level could be given a different bullets. E.g. "*"==▸,  
> "**"==●, etc. I'm sure that arrows and various brackets may also be  
> useful for various contexts.
>
> Of course the use of these characters would be configurable and  
> would be turned off automatically for buffers that are not UTF-8  
> encoded.
>
> Perhaps I'll one day learn the inner workings of org-mode  
> sufficiently to do this myself, but if there is someone who  
> meanwhile wants to pick up the idea, you're welcome!
>
> Regards,
> Dov
>
> On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 09:05, Nathan Neff <address@hidden>  
> wrote:
> Much easier to read, and I love the nesting/indenting of
> sub-headings.
>
> http://nateneff.com/   - Need to understand org-mode-clockreport- 
> rules.html
>
> --Nate
>
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- Carsten