Hi Branden, > I'm trying to help out another project (quilt) with some > non-portability in one of their man pages. Right now they're > embedding raw UTF-8 codepoints into text to use line-drawing > characters to depict a file hierarchy.
https://manned.org/quilt.1#head7 shows work/ ├── patches/ │ ├── series (list of patches to apply) │ ├── patch1.diff (one particular patch) │ ├── patch2.diff │ └── ... ├── .pc/ │ ├── .quilt_patches (content of QUILT_PATCHES) │ ├── .quilt_series (content of QUILT_SERIES) │ ├── patch1.diff/ (copy of patched files) │ │ └── ... │ ├── patch2.diff/ │ │ └── ... │ └── ... └── ... Indentation alone would seem sufficient to expose the hierarchy, but if they are intent on drawing lines. > Therefore please critique the following PIC. pic seems overkill. It seems to me they need three strings defined that render to the same width. VER | │ TEE |-- ├── ELL '-- └── A replacement shows it covers their tree. work/ TEE patches/ VER TEE series (list of patches to apply) VER TEE patch1.diff (one particular patch) VER TEE patch2.diff VER ELL ... TEE .pc/ VER TEE .quilt_patches (content of QUILT_PATCHES) VER TEE .quilt_series (content of QUILT_SERIES) VER TEE patch1.diff/ (copy of patched files) VER VER ELL ... VER TEE patch2.diff/ VER VER ELL ... VER ELL ... ELL ... -- Cheers, Ralph. https://plus.google.com/+RalphCorderoy
