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author | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2015-04-24 03:43:53 +0200 |
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committer | Mattias Andrée <maandree@operamail.com> | 2015-04-24 03:43:53 +0200 |
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info: box drawing
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diff --git a/doc/info/mds.texinfo b/doc/info/mds.texinfo index 2d45e7c..d68c347 100644 --- a/doc/info/mds.texinfo +++ b/doc/info/mds.texinfo @@ -6445,7 +6445,86 @@ the compose key. @node Box Drawing @subsection Box Drawing -1514 +Most of the box drawing glyphs can be composed by +typing @kbd{<dead compose>} followed by two +glyphs that should be combined to form the desired +glyphs. If the two glyphs are identical the glyph +becomes heavy. More general, common parts of the +glyphs become heavy. + +Glyphs that contain a heavy part be transformed +so that the heavy parts become double stroked. +Glyphs that do not contain heavy parts be transformed +so the entire glyphs becomes double stroked. +This is done by typing @kbd{<dead compose>} followed +by, in any order, @kbd{"+"} and the glyph to modify. +Note that this is not possible for all glyphs, as not +all glyphs have a double stroked variant, but all +double stroked glyphs can be composed this way. + +The horizontal and the vertical light glyphs, as well +as the combination of the two, can be made double stroked +by typing @kbd{<dead compose>} followed by, in any order, +@kbd{"="} and the glyph. + +The light corners can be made rounded by by typing +@kbd{<dead compose>} followed by, in any order, +@kbd{"o"} and the glyph or @kbd{"O"} and the glyph. + +The sequences @kbd{<dead compose> "-" "|"} and +@kbd{<dead compose> "|" "-"} can be used to create +a light horizontal line crossed with a light vertical +line. + +Basic box drawing glyphs are created with sequences +starting either with @kbd{<shift dead compose> "b"} +or @kbd{<shift dead compose> "B"}. The former creates +light glyphs, and the latter creates heavy glyphs. +Note that glyphs with diagonal lines do not have an +heavy variants. The base sequences are followed by +a sequence describing the glyphs to compose. +@table @kbd +@item "-" +Horizontal line. +@item "|" +Vertical line. +@item "+" +Horizontal line combined with vertical line. +@item "/" +Diagonal upper right to lower left. +@item "\" +Diagonal upper left to lower right. +@item "X" +Diagonal cross. +@item "<" +Left part of a horizontal line. +@item "^" +Upper part of a vertical line. +@item ">" +Right part of a horizontal line. +@item "v" +Lower part of a vertical line. +@end table +Simple arrows can be used instead of @kbd{"<"}, @kbd{"^"}, +@kbd{">"} and @kbd{"v"}. + +@kbd{"-"}, @kbd{"|"} can be prefixed with a key +to modify the lines. +@table @kbd +@item "=" +Double stroke. This modifier is also available for @kbd{"+"}. +@item "." +Triple dash. +@item ":" +Quadruple dash. +@end table + +Double dashed horizonal line is composed with +@kbd{<shift dead compose> "b" "." "."} for the +light variant and @kbd{<shift dead compose> "B" "." "."} +for the heavy. variant. @kbd{"." ":"}, or a broken +pipe, instead of @kbd{"." "."} can be used to create +a douebl dashed vertical line. |