Re: Quieter glyphs than parentheses

From: Ray Dillinger (bear_at_sonic.net)
Date: 02/04/04 

Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2004 03:02:55 GMT

Tayssir John Gabbour wrote:
>
> Brian Downing <see-signature@lavos.net> wrote in message news:<C9KTb.215000$na.353130@attbi_s04>...
> > I don't know about thin, but I like mine dim, and I found this to do it:
> >
> > http://www.davep.org/emacs/parenface.el
> >
> > It gives parens their own face in emacs, which you can configure however
> > you like.
>
> Thanks! While I was thinking of sending the code thru email, I'll
> definitely try this out for my own codin'.
>
> Incidentally, a couple syllables from the unicode's Canadian aborigine
> section look like good candidates. In fact, I once used to worry
> about people going nuts with unicode support, but it would be pretty
> fun to code in other languages. And you know, China's going to force
> the issue eventually anyway.

We're getting there. Slowly. Moving a Lisp to Unicode is quite an
undertaking if you intend to do it right, because source code and data
are the same 'language' so you've got an entire toolchain that mostly
has to be built from scratch.

                                Bear

        (currently elbows-deep in reimplementing unicode libraries
        using C, so as to get machine code that I can put into a
        compiler).

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