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Mention etl-unicode fonts in addition to intlfonts.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:40:06 +0000
parents d004c9d874b7
children 967a56f9d307 138ce2701550
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698 If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X 698 If some of the fonts called for in your fontset do not exist on your X
699 server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes. 699 server, then the characters that have no font appear as hollow boxes.
700 You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts. 700 You can remedy the problem by installing additional fonts.
701 701
702 The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can 702 The intlfonts distribution includes a full spectrum of fonts that can
703 display all the characters Emacs supports. 703 display all the characters Emacs supports. The etl-unicode collection
704 of fonts (available from <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/> and
705 <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/mirror/X.Org/contrib/fonts/>) includes
706 fonts that can display many Unicode characters; they can also be used
707 by ps-print and ps-mule to print Unicode characters.
704 708
705 Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a 709 Another cause of this for specific characters is fonts which have a
706 missing glyph and no default character. This is known to occur for 710 missing glyph and no default character. This is known to occur for
707 character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida 711 character number 160 (no-break space) in some fonts, such as Lucida
708 but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte and Latin-1 version 712 but Emacs sets the display table for the unibyte and Latin-1 version
709 of this character to display a space. 713 of this character to display a space.
710 714
711 ** Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines. 715 ** Under X11, some characters appear improperly aligned in their lines.
712 716
713 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution. 717 You may have bad X11 fonts; try installing the intlfonts distribution
718 or the etl-unicode collection (see the previous entry).
714 719
715 ** Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should". 720 ** Certain fonts make each line take one pixel more than it "should".
716 721
717 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller 722 This is because these fonts contain characters a little taller
718 than the font's nominal height. Emacs needs to make sure that 723 than the font's nominal height. Emacs needs to make sure that