> 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.
Oh man, I'm so glad I'm not the only one who's tried doing that with tree(1) output... I actually found myself in Brandan's shoes, but then I learned mandoc doesn't do line-drawing, so I nuked the entire diagram. Moral of the story: don't write manpages if your editor font has spiffy-looking box-drawing symbols that seamlessly connect, it never ends well for productivity. =( On 6 June 2018 at 21:39, Ralph Corderoy <ra...@inputplus.co.uk> wrote: > 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 > >
