[texhax] Old Fashoned PC "Box" characters

Heiko Oberdiek heiko.oberdiek at googlemail.com
Tue Aug 3 19:08:14 CEST 2010


On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 06:25:06PM +0200, Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

> On 3 August 2010 Don Gingrich wrote:
> 
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I teach a subject that uses Slackware Linux as a teaching
>  > tool. Students need to install the Operating System and
>  > in the Lab notes, I discuss how to do this. Slackware uses
>  > a menu system that is based on the old IBM PC extended character
>  > set. When I try to put this into a verbatim or Verbatim
>  > environment, all of the lines disappear.
> 
> Please try:
>  
>    texdoc pmboxdraw

Together with the right encoding, provided by project `inputenx'.
(e.g. x-cp437.def, ...)

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek


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