From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (=?iso-8859-2?q?Janusz_S._Bie=F1?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help,gmane.linux.debian.devel.emacsen Subject: Re: Amharic (and other) fonts, Debian Date: 19 Jan 2003 08:34:17 +0100 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <87y95hwq2u.fsf@mimuw.edu.pl> References: <87u1g6k9au.fsf@at_ipipan.waw.pl> Reply-To: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1042962101 14249 80.91.224.249 (19 Jan 2003 07:41:41 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 07:41:41 +0000 (UTC) Cc: debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18aA5L-0003hf-00 for ; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 08:41:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aA4e-0006NA-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 02:40:56 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aA3t-00062k-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 02:40:09 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aA1W-0003Yf-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 02:37:43 -0500 Original-Received: from duch.mimuw.edu.pl ([193.0.96.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18aA0d-00039d-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 02:36:47 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by duch.mimuw.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2C54581E; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 08:36:44 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from duch.mimuw.edu.pl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (duch [127.0.0.1:10024]) (amavisd-new) with ESMTP id 22519-04; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 08:36:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from grafem.mimuw.edu.pl (ws4040a.mimuw.edu.pl [::ffff:10.1.2.52]) by duch.mimuw.edu.pl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9EBE7580E; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 08:36:43 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: by ws4040a.mimuw.edu.pl via sendmail from stdin id (Debian Smail3.2.0.114) for jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl; Sun, 19 Jan 2003 08:34:50 +0100 (CET) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <87u1g6k9au.fsf@at_ipipan.waw.pl> Original-Lines: 57 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2.93 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:5697 gmane.linux.debian.devel.emacsen:296 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:5697 For follow-ups I suggest debian-emacsen@lists.debian.org and/or Debian Bug Tracking system (I just submitted a bug against xfonts-intl-asian): On Sat, 18 Jan 2003 adamp_at@at_ipipan.waw.pl (Adam P.) wrote: > Would anybody know what fonts (which Debian packages) I need to be > able to get Amharic, Tibetan and Tigrigna 'hellos' when I press C-h h? Depends whether you want to display it on screen or print on paper. For the former Emacs uses the fonts provided by X server, but to use the same fonts for printing Emacs requires them in BDF format. The long asnwer is there is a bug in Debian distribution of Emacs which can be circumvented in two ways. Emacs `HELLO' file requires the 'GNU international fonts'. Their primary Debianized form consists of packages xfonts-intl-* However, please note the copyright statement: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This package was debianized by Milan Zamazal on Fri, 9 Oct 1998 23:43:38 +0200. It was downloaded from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/pub/gnu/ . The non-free Tibetian fonts and some Thai fonts with unclear copying conditions were removed. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please note the date! The copyright problems seems to be solved in the meantime, because emacs-intl-fonts from testing or unstable seem to contain all GNU international fonts. So, you can get the needed fonts either from emacs-intl-fonts or directly from GNU site. Then you have to install them by hand to make them available for your X server. Regards Janusz -- , dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/