Re: ASCII formatting for plain text email

[Curt <curty@free.fr>]

On 2023-01-31, Pierre Willaime <pierre.willaime@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
>
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> Warning: I hope you will forgive me for this email not really related to
> debian. I just think people from this community could likely have good
> advice about this question.
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>
> I would like to format plain text emails to increase readability and
> information separation. The idea is to go beyond markdown and to have
> more visible elements. For example I am looking for a convenient way to
> "draw" some ASCII boxes such as
>
> #####################
> ## some title here ##
> #####################
>
> (I am using emacs comment-box feature in a buffer to do this and I
> replace ; by #, I suppose there is nicer way to do this).
>
> I often see email signature using this kind of formatting.
>
> Do you know dedicated tools or text editor to do such things the easy
> way on an everyday basis?
>
>
> Have a nice day
>
>

I haven't read all the answers, so I may be redundant (so to speak):

You can you use the 'ascii-art-to-string' function in the 'ascii-art-draw'
package. You first create a string with the text you wish to surround
with a box, then call the function on that string.