On 2023-02-01 at 09:22, Curt wrote: > On 2023-01-31, Pierre Willaime <pierre.willaime@univ-lorraine.fr> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> ---------- >> 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. >> ---------- >> >> 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. Can you double-check what (Debian) package that's in? I'm not finding any package or file named anything like either of those two things, in current Debian testing and stable. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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