From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs
Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:01:54 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8842b49a-0d41-481d-bc10-538d3970b531@m35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.1924.1267177006.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
On Feb 26, 5:35 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> No, not yet. GNU Emacs is missing means to use particular tables of
> TrueType or OpenType fonts.
Emacs 23 uses such tables already for Indic scripts, what is currently
missing is support for RTL languages.
> GNU Emacs is primarily an editor for programming languages. These are
> usually based on Latin scripts. And for legibility reasons the fonts
> used are mono-spaced, i.e., the characters on the (text) lines are
> lined up in fixed columns.
Emacs has supported proportionally spaced fonts since 21.1, and non-
Latin languages since 20.1, so neither of these is the source of any
problem.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-02-27 4:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-02-26 6:34 Arabic font for gnu emacs 石田惣一
2010-02-26 9:35 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-02-26 9:40 ` 石田惣一
[not found] ` <06492382-7709-487E-8FCB-8CAFBD2DD4C7@mac.com>
2010-02-27 0:26 ` 石田惣一
2010-02-27 15:49 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.1988.1267285761.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-27 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
[not found] ` <mailman.1924.1267177006.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-26 11:51 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-26 12:12 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27 14:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-02-27 4:01 ` Jason Rumney [this message]
2010-02-27 10:36 ` Peter Dyballa
2010-02-28 6:30 ` tomas
2010-02-28 16:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-03-01 6:48 ` tomas
[not found] <mailman.1920.1267175843.14305.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2010-02-26 11:52 ` Hibou57 (Yannick Duchêne)
2010-02-27 1:50 ` Stefan Monnier
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