* Customizing fonts in a mult-language (English+Hebrew) environment
@ 2012-09-23 23:59 Will Parsons
2012-09-24 5:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Will Parsons @ 2012-09-23 23:59 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
I've never completely understood how to deal with fonts, and find
myself somewhat frustrated with the situation where I'm composing a
text mainly in English but that also includes some Hebrew text. The
problem is that although the English text is displayed in a font that
is completely legible, the Hebrew text is hard to read. (I think this
is partly because the letters in the Hebrew alphabet tend to be more
easily confused with each other than the letters in the Latin
alphabet, and also because even though the point-size of the Hebrew
font is presumably the same as the English font, the letters in the
Hebrew text give the impression of being smaller in size than the
English text.)
So, I'd like to arrange it so that both the English and the Hebrew
text are equally legible, but haven't the slightest idea of how to
accomplish that.
--
Will
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* Re: Customizing fonts in a mult-language (English+Hebrew) environment
2012-09-23 23:59 Customizing fonts in a mult-language (English+Hebrew) environment Will Parsons
@ 2012-09-24 5:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
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From: Eli Zaretskii @ 2012-09-24 5:32 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
> From: Will Parsons <oudeis@nodomain.invalid>
> Date: 23 Sep 2012 23:59:45 GMT
>
> So, I'd like to arrange it so that both the English and the Hebrew
> text are equally legible, but haven't the slightest idea of how to
> accomplish that.
First, find a font that gives you legible Hebrew characters. (You
didn't say what system are you one; the way of doing this depends on
the OS.) Let's say that font's name is "CoolFont".
Then put this in your ~/.emacs:
(set-fontset-font t 'hebrew "CoolFont")
This causes Emacs to use the specified font for Hebrew.
If you find a font that is good for both English and Hebrew, then
setting the 'font' attribute of the 'default' face will cause Emacs to
use that font as the default font.
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* Re: Customizing fonts in a mult-language (English+Hebrew) environment
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@ 2012-09-24 19:24 ` Will Parsons
2012-09-24 21:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-24 21:29 ` Peter Dyballa
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From: Will Parsons @ 2012-09-24 19:24 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: help-gnu-emacs
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: Will Parsons <oudeis@nodomain.invalid>
>> Date: 23 Sep 2012 23:59:45 GMT
>>
>> So, I'd like to arrange it so that both the English and the Hebrew
>> text are equally legible, but haven't the slightest idea of how to
>> accomplish that.
>
> First, find a font that gives you legible Hebrew characters. (You
> didn't say what system are you one; the way of doing this depends on
> the OS.) Let's say that font's name is "CoolFont".
>
> Then put this in your ~/.emacs:
>
> (set-fontset-font t 'hebrew "CoolFont")
Thanks - now I'll have to find a good legible Hebrew font. (I'm
running on FreeBSD.)
> This causes Emacs to use the specified font for Hebrew.
>
> If you find a font that is good for both English and Hebrew, then
> setting the 'font' attribute of the 'default' face will cause Emacs to
> use that font as the default font.
The way I'm specifying my default font now is in .Xresources:
Emacs.font: 9x15
But as I said, although this looks good in English, I find the Hebrew
font it pulls in a bit hard to read.
--
Will
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