ncurses 6.1 - patch 20191026

[ncurses.git] / man / curs_add_wch.3x

diff --git a/man/curs_add_wch.3x b/man/curs_add_wch.3x
index 1c50b2cd919c3f7930065ff668a5cd9d6b729f09..245cc17e0cae8c15362d7109a61b8108e064e9f8 100644 (file)
--- a/man/curs_add_wch.3x
+++ b/man/curs_add_wch.3x
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 .\"***************************************************************************
-.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2015,2017 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
+.\" Copyright (c) 2001-2017,2019 Free Software Foundation, Inc.              *
 .\"                                                                          *
 .\" Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a  *
 .\" copy of this software and associated documentation files (the            *
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@
 .\" authorization.                                                           *
 .\"***************************************************************************
 .\"
-.\" $Id: curs_add_wch.3x,v 1.24 2017/11/18 23:47:37 tom Exp $
+.\" $Id: curs_add_wch.3x,v 1.25 2019/10/27 00:07:13 tom Exp $
 .TH curs_add_wch 3X ""
 .ie \n(.g .ds `` \(lq
 .el       .ds `` ``
@@ -155,7 +155,28 @@ WACS_VLINE 0x2502  |       x       vertical line
 .TE
 .PP
 The wide-character configuration of ncurses also defines symbols
-for double-lines:
+for thick lines (\fBacsc\fP \*(``J\*('' to \*(``V\*(''):
+.TS
+l l l l l
+l l l l l
+_ _ _ _ _
+lw(1.5i) lw5 lw5 lw5 lw20.
+\fBACS\fR      \fBUnicode\fP   \fBASCII\fR     \fBacsc\fP      \fBGlyph\fR
+\fBName\fR     \fBDefault\fP   \fBDefault\fR   \fBchar\fP      \fBName\fR
+WACS_T_BTEE    0x253b  +       V       thick tee pointing up
+WACS_T_HLINE   0x2501  -       Q       thick horizontal line
+WACS_T_LLCORNER        0x2517  +       M       thick lower left corner
+WACS_T_LRCORNER        0x251b  +       J       thick lower right corner
+WACS_T_LTEE    0x252b  +       T       thick tee pointing right
+WACS_T_PLUS    0x254b  +       N       thick large plus
+WACS_T_RTEE    0x2523  +       U       thick tee pointing left
+WACS_T_TTEE    0x2533  +       W       thick tee pointing down
+WACS_T_ULCORNER        0x250f  +       L       thick upper left corner
+WACS_T_URCORNER        0x2513  +       K       thick upper right corner
+WACS_T_VLINE   0x2503  |       X       thick vertical line
+.TE
+.PP
+and for double-lines (\fBacsc\fP \*(``A\*('' to \*(``I\*(''):
 .PP
 .TS
 l l l l l
@@ -177,26 +198,15 @@ WACS_D_URCORNER   0x2557  +       B       double upper right corner
 WACS_D_VLINE   0x2551  |       Y       double vertical line
 .TE
 .PP
-and for thick lines:
-.TS
-l l l l l
-l l l l l
-_ _ _ _ _
-lw(1.5i) lw5 lw5 lw5 lw20.
-\fBACS\fR      \fBUnicode\fP   \fBASCII\fR     \fBacsc\fP      \fBGlyph\fR
-\fBName\fR     \fBDefault\fP   \fBDefault\fR   \fBchar\fP      \fBName\fR
-WACS_T_BTEE    0x253b  +       V       thick tee pointing up
-WACS_T_HLINE   0x2501  -       Q       thick horizontal line
-WACS_T_LLCORNER        0x2517  +       M       thick lower left corner
-WACS_T_LRCORNER        0x251b  +       J       thick lower right corner
-WACS_T_LTEE    0x252b  +       T       thick tee pointing right
-WACS_T_PLUS    0x254b  +       N       thick large plus
-WACS_T_RTEE    0x2523  +       U       thick tee pointing left
-WACS_T_TTEE    0x2533  +       W       thick tee pointing down
-WACS_T_ULCORNER        0x250f  +       L       thick upper left corner
-WACS_T_URCORNER        0x2513  +       K       thick upper right corner
-WACS_T_VLINE   0x2503  |       X       thick vertical line
-.TE
+Unicode's descriptions for these characters differs slightly from ncurses,
+by introducing the term \*(``light\*('' (along with less important details).
+Here are its descriptions for the normal, thick, and double horizontal lines:
+.bP
+U+2500 BOX DRAWINGS LIGHT HORIZONTAL
+.bP
+U+2501 BOX DRAWINGS HEAVY HORIZONTAL
+.bP
+U+2550 BOX DRAWINGS DOUBLE HORIZONTAL
 .SH RETURN VALUE
 .PP
 All routines return the integer \fBERR\fR upon failure and \fBOK\fR on success.