From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:01:54 -0800 (PST) Organization: http://groups.google.com Message-ID: <8842b49a-0d41-481d-bc10-538d3970b531@m35g2000prh.googlegroups.com> References: <9eeaa8101002252234l43e989fcwda58310319d1517c@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1267245696 14914 80.91.229.12 (27 Feb 2010 04:41:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:41:36 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 27 05:41:32 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1NlEUc-0003pw-V1 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 27 Feb 2010 05:41:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:39685 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NlEUc-0006OL-EH for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 26 Feb 2010 23:41:30 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!m35g2000prh.googlegroups.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 16 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 202.156.9.253 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1267243314 682 127.0.0.1 (27 Feb 2010 04:01:54 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 04:01:54 +0000 (UTC) Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Injection-Info: m35g2000prh.googlegroups.com; posting-host=202.156.9.253; posting-account=pYxWjwkAAACsHSUNDoi5N05LVCTP7PVM User-Agent: G2/1.0 X-HTTP-UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.2) Gecko/20100115 Firefox/3.6 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729),gzip(gfe),gzip(gfe) Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:177145 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:72180 Archived-At: On Feb 26, 5:35=A0pm, Peter Dyballa wrote: > No, not yet. GNU Emacs is missing means to use particular tables of =A0 > 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 =A0 > usually based on Latin scripts. And for legibility reasons the fonts =A0 > used are mono-spaced, i.e., the characters on the (text) lines are =A0 > 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.