On 2023-01-31, Pierre Willaime <pierre.willa...@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.
