- From: <esr@snark.thyrsus.com>
- Date: Thu, 11 Jul 1996 13:02:38 -0400 (EDT)
- To: imy@wcl-rs.bham.ac.uk (Ian Young)
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> <!ENTITY boxul SDATA "[boxul ]"--upper left quadrant-->
> <!ENTITY boxdl SDATA "[boxdl ]"--lower left quadrant-->
> <!ENTITY boxdr SDATA "[boxdr ]"--lower right quadrant-->
> <!ENTITY boxur SDATA "[boxur ]"--upper right quadrant-->
> <!ENTITY boxvr SDATA "[boxvr ]"--upper and lower right quadrants-->
> <!ENTITY boxvl SDATA "[boxvl ]"-- upper and lower left quadrants-- >
> <!ENTITY boxhu SDATA "[boxhu ]"--upper left and right quadrants-->
> <!ENTITY boxhd SDATA "[boxhd ]"--lower left and right quadrants-->
> <!ENTITY boxh SDATA "[boxh ]"--horizontal line -->
> <!ENTITY boxv SDATA "[boxv ]"--vertical line-->
> <!ENTITY boxvh SDATA "[boxvh ]"--all four quadrants-->
Are these existing entities or proposals?
> > scan line 1 ACS_S1
> > scan line 9 ACS_S9
>
> What are these?
Top line and bottom line of the character cell. They're not very important.
> > diamond ACS_DIAMOND
>
> Plenty of these in Unicode :-) You have a choice of:
>
> 22C4;DIAMOND OPERATOR;Sm;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
> 2311;SQUARE LOZENGE;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
> 233A;APL FUNCTIONAL SYMBOL QUAD DIAMOND;So;0;L;;;;;N;;;;;
> 25C6;BLACK DIAMOND;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
> 25C7;WHITE DIAMOND;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
> 25C8;WHITE DIAMOND CONTAINING BLACK SMALL DIAMOND;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
> 25CA;LOZENGE;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
> 2662;WHITE DIAMOND SUIT;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
> 2666;BLACK DIAMOND SUIT;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
> 2756;BLACK DIAMOND MINUS WHITE X;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
25CA should do fine.
> And in 8879:
>
> <!ENTITY diam SDATA "[diam ]"--/diamond B: open diamond-->
> <!ENTITY diams SDATA "[diams ]"--/diamondsuit =diamond suit symbol-->
> <!ENTITY loz SDATA "[loz ]"--/lozenge - lozenge or total mark-->
> <!ENTITY lozf SDATA "[lozf ]"--/blacklozenge - lozenge, filled-->
I guess loz corresponds to 25CA?
> > checker board (stipple) ACS_CKBOARD
>
> Oddly, all the chess pieces are in Unicode, but I can't find a board...
Hm. Too bad.
> > degree symbol ACS_DEGREE
> > plus/minus ACS_PLMINUS
>
> Both in HTML already:
> °
> ±
>
> > bullet ACS_BULLET
>
> 2022;BULLET;Po;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
>
> <!ENTITY bull SDATA "[bull ]"--/bullet B: =round bullet, filled-->
Good!
> > arrow pointing left ACS_LARROW
> > arrow pointing right ACS_RARROW
> > arrow pointing down ACS_DARROW
> > arrow pointing up ACS_UARROW
>
> 2190;LEFTWARDS ARROW;So;0;ON;;;;;N;LEFT ARROW;;;;
> 2192;RIGHTWARDS ARROW;So;0;ON;;;;;N;RIGHT ARROW;;;;
> 2193;DOWNWARDS ARROW;So;0;ON;;;;;N;DOWN ARROW;;;;
> 2191;UPWARDS ARROW;So;0;ON;;;;;N;UP ARROW;;;;
>
> <!ENTITY larr SDATA "[larr ]"--/leftarrow /gets A: =leftward arrow-->
> <!ENTITY rarr SDATA "[rarr ]"--/rightarrow /to A: =rightward arrow-->
> <!ENTITY uarr SDATA "[uarr ]"--/uparrow A: =upward arrow-->
> <!ENTITY darr SDATA "[darr ]"--/downarrow A: =downward arrow-->
Even better!
> > board of squares ACS_BOARD
>
> Unicode has this; any good?
>
> 25A6;SQUARE WITH ORTHOGONAL CROSSHATCH FILL;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
That will do fine.
> > lantern symbol ACS_LANTERN
>
> What's this?
It normally looks like two small triangles placed vertically tips together.
The shape is like this:
XXXXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXX
XXXXXX
XXXX
XXXXXX
XXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXX
XXXXXXXXXXXX
It's not very important.
> > solid square block ACS_BLOCK
>
> 25A0;BLACK SQUARE;So;0;ON;;;;;N;;;;;
>
> <!ENTITY squf SDATA "[squf ]"--/blacksquare =sq bullet, filled-->
That ought to work nicely.
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<a href="http://www.ccil.org/~esr/home.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>
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