From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: Jason Rumney <jasonr@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: doc/emacs/mule.texi questions
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 13:37:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2vpqb7pog8.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <873983rdrg.fsf@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Mon, 16 Apr 2012 21:45:55 +0800")
Jason Rumney wrote:
> I think standard-fontset-spec is a leftover from Emacs 22 before a font
> backend existed that could automatically sort through the fonts
> available on the user's system. This fontset spec was designed to match
> the fonts in the GNU intlfonts package. The default fontset is probably
> a leftover too, Emacs displays most international characters out of the
> box now whether you specify a fontset or just a simple font.
I know very little about fontsets (so it would be great if someone other
than me would proof-read this part of the manual...), but reading those
parts of mule.texi I got the general impression that some of it seems
old.
For example, the GNU intlfonts tarfile is 9 years old. Does anyone still
need to install that, as opposed to just their distribution's font
packages for international characters?
The installation instructions (in mule.texi) refer to "xset fp+". I
guess (?) that still works, but aren't fontconfig files the way to do
that nowadays?
The fontsets docs refer mainly to the old-style font specs like
-*-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-standard
I still use those, but I get the impression that most people have moved
on to things like "DejaVu Sans Mono-12" instead. There is little mention
of that in mule.texi.
> No, this is very out of date advice. Mule was stable enough to use in
> elisp files by 20.3 at latest.
Many things related to unibyte were declared obsolete.
Should the "unibyte: t" spec (meaning, load or compile this file of Lisp
code in unibyte mode) be another?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-04-16 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-04-14 19:25 doc/emacs/mule.texi questions Glenn Morris
2012-04-14 19:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-04-16 13:45 ` Jason Rumney
2012-04-16 17:37 ` Glenn Morris [this message]
2012-04-17 1:54 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-17 17:44 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-04-18 16:34 ` Glenn Morris
2012-04-18 21:47 ` Stefan Monnier
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