Gnu Emacs 20.7 and international fonts
I am using a recently installed Debian Linux.
I am disappointed that installing `emacs20.7-2' and all the packages
of *GNU* international fonts is not sufficient to execute succesfully
"Show Scipt Examples" (C-h h), i.e. to display and print correctly
etc/HELLO file.
As for display, the fonts for Ampharic, Tibetan and Tigrina are
missing.
According to /usr/doc/xfonts-intl-asian/copyright, the
`xfonts-intl-asian' package is missing the Tibetan fonts because of
"unclear copying conditions". What is exactly the problem with the
copying conditions? Aren't the *GNU* fonts distributed according to
*GNU* license? Anyway, I think that any distribution problem can be
sorted out with Kenichi Handa, the maintainer (if I understand
correctly) of the GNU international fonts.
As for Ampahric and Tigrina, they need Ethiopic fonts, which are
included in GNU Internationals fonts 1.1, but are not available as a
Debian package (at least dselect does not list them on my computer).
As for printing multilingual texts, to the best of my knowledge Emacs
requires international fonts in the BDF format in the directory
pointed by the `bdf-directory-list', by default in
"/usr/local/share/emacs/fonts/bdf", while the packages install them
only as *.pcf.gz in /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/.
Now the main question:
What is the recommended way to configure Emacs for handling correctly
the HELLO file, and in consequence other multilingual files?
I have also some other questions about packaging of Emacs-related stuff.
Package: emacs20
Status: install ok installed
Priority: standard
Section: editors
Installed-Size: 26546
Maintainer: Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
Version: 20.7-2
Provides: emacsen, info-browser, mail-reader, news-reader, www-browser
^^^^^^^^^^
Isn't this a mistake? Web browser for GNU Emacs 20 is provided
separately as `w3-el-e20' package.
Depends: emacsen-common (>= 1.4.10), libc6 (>= 2.1.2), liblockfile1 (>= 1.0), li
Suggests: emacs20-el
Shouldn't international fonts be suggested, too? The package includes
already leim, which is totally useless without international fonts.
Package: xfonts-intl-european
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: x11
Installed-Size: 164
Maintainer: Milan Zamazal <pdm@debian.org>
Source: intlfonts
Version: 1.1-9
^^^
What about the package for GNU international fonts version 1.2?
Best regards and thanks for your efforts.
Janusz
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dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW
Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity
http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
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