'Extended ASCII' Included things like accented vowels . ANSI aka Windows Code Page 1251 included box drawing characters that were used pretty widely in the USA pre-windows on DOS.
Most of the Windows Box drawing glyphs are now in the Unicode Box Drawing U+2500 - U+2550. [image: Screenshot from 2023-03-03 16-49-13.png] However, Accessing these unicode glyphs don't have equivalent means to render them like in the DOS days. You can't spell them out then convert them to drawing, nor can you use Alt- or Alt-shift alphabet keys to access them like in the DOS era. You'll have to find an 'ascii draw' app that has them in its palette. I don't have windows installed, but I see Arial has the unicode box drawing glyphs. as does Deja Vu Monospace. So if you have Arial monospace or find Deja Vu Monospace, either will have the box drawing set , and they will align like monospace fonts. I just don't know a program to suggest that will allow you to access these glyphs like you could in Wordstar for DOS. On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 4:41 PM Carter Campbell <li...@soph-text.com> wrote: > Hi John; > > I think what you are referring to used to be called the ASCII Extended > Character Set. This included characters that could be used to draw > boxes and things on a screen or page. > > You can find a listing of the codes here: https://theasciicode.com.ar/ > > You could also find it in the MS Gothic font (if you are running > Windows). The characters are often towards the upper limit of the font > codes. > > Hope this helps. > > Carter > > > Hi John, > > > > John R. Sowden schrieb am 03.03.2023 um 21:23: > >> What is the name and location of a monospace font that includes the > >> IBM line drawing set. > > > > What is a "IBM line drawing set"? If that are some proprietary glyphs, > > you should not use them. Reader, who do not have the font, will not be > > able to read you document. Instead look at the Unicode charts, whether > > such symbols are included in Unicode and then look for a font, which > > covers that range. > > Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box-drawing_character > > Do you look for such characters? > > If yes then "DejaVu Sans Mono" will likely work for you. > > > > I used it a lot for forms in WordStar/DOS and I want > >> to continue in LibreOffice. > > > > If it is so old, then it is likely a bitmap font and LibreOffice > > cannot use it. > > > >> > >> How do I install it? > > > > That is outside of LibreOffice. Installing a font is done on level of > > your operating system. On Windows you will find "Install" in the > > context menu of the font file, for example. > > > > Kind regards, > > Regina > > > > > -- > Carter Campbell > Technical Communications > li...@soph-text.com > Calgary Alberta > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? https://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: https://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ Privacy Policy: https://www.documentfoundation.org/privacy
