Re: A few observations regarding tbl

2021-06-19 Thread T . Kurt Bond
On Sat, 19 Jun 2021 17:49:02 -0400, "G. Branden Robinson" wrote: > At 2021-06-19T12:39:37-0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > > I looked, and couldn't find a free monospace font with both OPEN BOX > > and CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T. [...] > > My search wasn't exhaustive; does anybody else know of one?

Re: A few observations regarding tbl

2021-06-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Hi Oliver! At 2021-06-18T15:15:45+0200, Oliver Corff wrote: > I thought over the subject and I decided to write a new introduction > to tbl, akin to Lesk's introduction, but under FLOSS license and with > a focus on the gnu extensions. That's terrific! I don't think it's necessary to belabor the

Re: A few observations regarding tbl

2021-06-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
At 2021-06-19T12:39:37-0400, T. Kurt Bond wrote: > I looked, and couldn't find a free monospace font with both OPEN BOX > and CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T. Well, I exclude Unifont, because > I don't think it is adequate for use in print. It definitely is not. > My search wasn't exhaustive; doe

Re: Reverting various commits

2021-06-19 Thread G. Branden Robinson
Following up on an issue from last month... At 2021-05-21T19:28:17+1000, G. Branden Robinson wrote: > At 2021-05-20T16:09:59+0200, Ingo Schwarze wrote: > > Hi Branden, > > G. Branden Robinson wrote on Thu, May 20, 2021 at 01:23:18AM -0400: > > > > > commit bf4b3dde3ba442a0cf52e986d2549f1dc47f43c5

Re: A few observations regarding tbl

2021-06-19 Thread T. Kurt Bond
I looked, and couldn't find a free monospace font with both OPEN BOX and CIRCLED LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T. Well, I exclude Unifont, because I don't think it is adequate for use in print. My search wasn't exhaustive; does anybody else know of one? So you can substitute a space for something with .t

Re: A few observations regarding tbl

2021-06-19 Thread Oliver Corff
Thank you for your suggestions and experiments. I think U+2423 is the way to go, and for the tab character the T in a circle is as close to tradition as possible. I fumbled with .tr after reading your mail and it seems how space is used as a delimiter in general input processing prohibits it from