Re: overline and/or leftline ?

[Patrick]

On 05/27/2017 08:33 AM, Patrick wrote:
> Hi Everyone
>
> I love COBOL. I use GnuCOBOL.
>
> GnuCOBOL has ncurses built in. Various attributes can be defined in 
> it's "screen section". We have a file called screenio.c that controls 
> this. screenio.c does not have support for overline and leftline. Does 
> ncurses have this functionality? I would like to add this to GnuCOBOL.
>
> I can't find any reference to them in Dan Gookin's book which has a 
> large section that covers the API.
>
> Any help would be appreciated-Patrick
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Sorry for answering my  own post. I just wanted to mention that the 
question about leftline is not a good one. I doubt that any font will 
support a vertical line in the same cell, this must be a separate cell 
to the left that contains a vertical bar. I can implement this.

Overline is also a unicode character that does not take up a space. If 
it is in ncurses that will be great, please let me know but if not, I 
should be able to write a function that appends this to each character.

Sorry for the low quality post-Patrick