From: Tony Finch Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 17:28:44 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Explain the updated box-drawing cleanup. X-Git-Tag: DEVEL_PDKIM_START~66 X-Git-Url: https://git.exim.org/users/heiko/exim.git/commitdiff_plain/0149648137ca6022f95e83bd0bbe29b5ef020d52?ds=inline;hp=ddec0cd939205bcf25f5ed4596f43e4c405fea07 Explain the updated box-drawing cleanup. --- diff --git a/doc/doc-docbook/HowItWorks.txt b/doc/doc-docbook/HowItWorks.txt index a3049952a..fe99ff6b3 100644 --- a/doc/doc-docbook/HowItWorks.txt +++ b/doc/doc-docbook/HowItWorks.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-docbook/HowItWorks.txt,v 1.8 2007/08/31 09:13:40 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-docbook/HowItWorks.txt,v 1.9 2008/02/04 17:28:44 fanf2 Exp $ CREATING THE EXIM DOCUMENTATION @@ -505,14 +505,13 @@ preceded by an extra two blank lines and a line of equals characters. An extra newline is inserted before each section heading, and they are underlined with hyphens. -August 2007: A further feature has been added to Tidytxt. The current version -of xmlto makes HTML that contains non-ASCII Unicode characters. Fortunately, -they are few. The heading uses "box drawing" characters in the range U+2500 to -U+253F, and within the main text, U+00A0 (hard space) occasionally appears. The -Tidytxt script now turns all the former into hyphens and the latter into normal -spaces. Bullets, which are set as U+25CF, are turned into asterisks. (It might -be possible to do all this in the same way as I dealt with copyright - see -above - but adding three lines of Perl to an existing script was a lot easier.) +The output of xmlto also contains non-ASCII Unicode characters that w3m passes +through. Fortunately, they are few, and Tidytxt cleans them up as well. Some +headings use "box drawing" characters in the range U+2500 to U+253F which are +translated into -+| as appropriate, and U+00A0 (hard space) and U+25CF (bullet) +are translated into plain spaces and asterisks. (It might be possible to do all +this in the same way as I dealt with copyright - see above - but adding a few +lines of Perl to an existing script was a lot easier.) CREATING INFO FILES