ISO-8859-1 fonts in Mac-Emacs ?

ISO-8859-1 fonts in Mac-Emacs ?

[Ronald Florence]

I'm using Mac-Emacs (GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.0) on 
MacOS 10.2.1, and having little luck getting it to display ISO-8859-1 
characters.

A modified Monoco font, as described in the Mac-Emacs OSX FAQ at 
http://members.shaw.ca/akochoi-emacs/FAQ.txt,  does display ISO-8859-1 
characters; unfortunately it is too small for my 60-year-old eyes. I 
have been unable to get any other font to work for ISO-8859-1 
characters.  I downloaded the GNU intlfonts modified for Mac-Emacs, but 
found no information on where to put them or how to configure Mac-Emacs 
to use them.   I also tried downloading the intlfonts distribution and 
the package that is supposed to modify them for Mac-Emacs OSX; it seems 
to require a tool (MPW) which is not part of  MacOS 10.2.1 or the 
developer-tools.

I would very much welcome suggestions or a step-by-step on how to get 
ISO-8859-1 fonts -- even one font larger than 9pt -- working on 
Mac-Emacs.  Thanks,

Ronald Florence			www.18james.com

Re: ISO-8859-1 fonts in Mac-Emacs ?

[Ronald Florence]

Ronald Florence wrote:

> I'm using Mac-Emacs (GNU Emacs 21.3.50.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin6.0) on 
> MacOS 10.2.1 [. . .] I downloaded the GNU intlfonts modified for Mac-Emacs, but 
> found no information on where to put them or how to configure Mac-Emacs 
> to use them.

Bad form to answer my own query, but a brief struggle against my Mac 
ignorance (alas, 15+ years of Unix, 1 month of a Mac!) revealed that 
putting the fonts in that package into /Library/Fonts would make them 
available.

New question: how can I use more fonts than the three that come up in 
list-fonts:

Fontset: -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-default
Fontset: -etl-fixed-medium-r-normal-*-16-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-mac
Fontset: -apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-monaco

Thanks,

Ronald Florence			www.18james.com

Re: ISO-8859-1 fonts in Mac-Emacs ?

[Andrew Choi]

From the FAQ I've recently posted at my website:

+-----
| ** How do I create my own fontset?
| 
| To properly display latin-1 characters using 9-pt Monaco, do this:
| 
|   (create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
| "-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-monaco,
| ascii:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-m-90-mac-roman,
| latin-iso8859-1:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--9-90-75-75-m-90-mac-roman")
| 
| 
| and set-frame-font to "fontset-monaco".
| 
| You can also use any other font that has non-zero size in the list
| returned by the function x-list-fonts.
+-----

So to use 10-pt Monaco, e.g., do this:

(create-fontset-from-fontset-spec
"-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--10-*-*-*-*-*-fontset-monaco10,
ascii:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-m-100-mac-roman,
latin-iso8859-1:-apple-monaco-medium-r-normal--10-100-75-75-m-100-mac-roman")

and set-default-font to fontset-monaco10.