Re: Printing from WindowXP version of emacs

[Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyballa@Web.DE>]

Am 06.01.2006 um 09:36 schrieb Eli Zaretskii:

> All one needs is download and install the GNU
> Intlfonts package and customize a few variables as documented in
> ps-mule.el.  In addition to BDF fonts, there are Type1 and TrueType
> fonts in that package.

These fonts are a mess of patches with holes in them. I do not  
recommend to use them, except, one uses found rubber parts instead of  
tyres around one's car's rims because the tyres were needed to build  
one's shoes, sandal type, from.

The PS or TT fonts come from the old TeX Omega project. In recent TeX  
you can find more and more complete fonts (meanwhile we are writing  
the year 2006, it's in the third millennium now).

And I know what I am writing since I have them installed, since I use  
them still in some Carbon Emacsen (some variants are handicapped from  
inadequate and proprietary decisions in last millennium), since I  
used them in GNU Emacs 22 which now has a basis of complicated  
fontsets from mostly mono-spaced Unicode encoded TrueType fonts --  
from time to time I still see glyphs from the GNU Intlfonts! Fighting  
with these fontset definitions brings much more pleasing results than  
using this given up and incomplete work-around.


There is probably good reason that ps-type1.el is not included in GNU  
Emacs.

And I am sure this decision is not based on the existence of  
htmlize.el. Which looks more like a perfect work-around for something  
missing in GNU Emacs, or, in other words, like a solution for a since  
long existing problem.

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   Pete

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