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Re: [xml2rfc] Unicode box-drawing for a new --table-borders value?

John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com> Sun, 31 January 2021 18:48 UTC

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From: John R Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: [xml2rfc] Unicode box-drawing for a new --table-borders value?
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>>  a problem specific to the legacy Courier
>
> (Which is here that the limited set of box drawing characters in that font are not (all?) mapped to Unicode code points, so there is some font substitution going on.)

Right.  Once again, if you want nice looking boxes, HTML draws them much 
better.

Regards,
John Levine, johnl@taugh.com, Taughannock Networks, Trumansburg NY
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