BDF files

BDF files

[Karl Chen]

lisp/ps-mule.el refers to some BDF files that don't exist in the
Emacs distribution.  They are required to print Unicode
characters.  With some Googling I was able to find ones that
worked for me.

What is the situation with these?  Did they exist before, but were
removed due to licensing issues?  Or nobody bothered to add them?

-- 
Karl 2005-05-22 17:24

Re: BDF files

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <quack.20050522T1732.877jhqvl2o@quack.cs.berkeley.edu>, Karl Chen <quarl@cs.berkeley.edu> writes:

> lisp/ps-mule.el refers to some BDF files that don't exist in the
> Emacs distribution.  They are required to print Unicode
> characters.  With some Googling I was able to find ones that
> worked for me.

First of all, Emacs distribution doesn't contain any fonts.

> What is the situation with these?  Did they exist before, but were
> removed due to licensing issues?  Or nobody bothered to add them?

At the beginning I listed only the files in intlfonts
package and it doesn't include iso10646 fonts.  But, someone
(I forgot) compiled those files and built iso10646 fonts
(e.g. etl24-unicode.bdf).  And someone added them in
ps-mule.el.

---
Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org

Re: BDF files

[Richard Stallman]

    At the beginning I listed only the files in intlfonts
    package and it doesn't include iso10646 fonts.  But, someone
    (I forgot) compiled those files and built iso10646 fonts
    (e.g. etl24-unicode.bdf).  And someone added them in
    ps-mule.el.

Are these fonts free?

Re: BDF files

[James Cloos]

>>>>> "KH"  == Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
>>>>> "RMS" == Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

KH> someone ...

It may have been Primoz Peterlin.

Roman Czyborra also has http://czyborra.com/unifont, but I believe
that only has a 16 pixel high font.

KH> compiled those files and built iso10646 fonts (e.g.
KH> etl24-unicode.bdf).  And someone added them in ps-mule.el.

RMS> Are these fonts free?

Gentoo's mirror of the (24 MB) tar file is at:

http://gentoo.osuosl.org/distfiles/efont-unicode-bdf-0.4.2.tar.bz2

The COPYING file therein says:

=====
(c) Copyright 2000-2001 /efont/ The Electronic Font Open Laboratory.
All rights reserved.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
are met:

1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
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   notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
   documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
3. Neither the name of the team nor the names of its contributors
   may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this font
   without specific prior written permission.

THIS FONT IS PROVIDED BY THE TEAM AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND
ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
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-JimC
-- 
James H. Cloos, Jr. <cloos@jhcloos.com>

Re: BDF files

[Richard Stallman]

It looks like these fonts are free.  So it is ok for us
to recommend their use.  I think we should put a copy of them
onto ftp.gnu.org and refer to them there.  Is anyone here
in a position to do that?

Re: BDF files

[Richard Stallman]

It looks like these fonts are free.  So it is ok for us
to recommend their use.  I think we should put a copy of them
onto ftp.gnu.org and refer to them there.

Is anyone here in a position to do that?  Eli, can you do it?

Re: BDF files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
> Date: Wed, 01 Jun 2005 13:25:27 -0400
> Cc: quarl@cs.berkeley.edu, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org
> 
> It looks like these fonts are free.  So it is ok for us
> to recommend their use.  I think we should put a copy of them
> onto ftp.gnu.org and refer to them there.
> 
> Is anyone here in a position to do that?  Eli, can you do it?

I'm not sure I have permissions to upload to ftp.gnu.org.  Can someone
tell me where I find the necessary instructions?