On Tue, Jan 31, 2023 at 07:49:18PM +0100, Pierre Willaime wrote: > ##################### > ## 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.
A .signature file is only written once, so it doesn't matter how tedious it is to produce the desired formatting. That said, I would imagine relatively few people have octothorpe boxes around text in their .signature files these days. Even back in the 1990s, that would have been considered a bit on the tacky side. If you're seeing it "often", then I suppose you're hanging with different communities than I am. Consider that the standard etiquette rules for .signature files, as they were taught to me back in the 1990s, recommended that a .signature be no more than 4 lines (and of course a line must *always* contain fewer than 80 characters, with exceptions only for pasted shell commands, command output/errors, configuration file contents, and so on).