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Implement GUI display of R2L lines, fix TTY display of R2L lines. xdisp.c [HAVE_WINDOW_SYSTEM]: Add prototype for append_stretch_glyph. (set_cursor_from_row) <cursor_x>: Remove unused variable. Fix off-by-one error in computing x at end of text in the row. (append_stretch_glyph): In reversed row, prepend the glyph rather than append it. Set resolved_level and bidi_type of the glyph. (extend_face_to_end_of_line): If the row is reversed, prepend a stretch glyph whose width is such that the rightmost glyph will be drawn at the right margin of the window. Fix off-by-one error on TTY frames in testing whether a line needs face extension. Fix face extension at ZV. If this is the last glyph row, use DEFAULT_FACE_ID, to avoid painting the rest of the window with the region face. (set_cursor_from_row, display_line): Use MATRIX_ROW_CONTINUATION_LINE_P instead of testing value of row->continuation_lines_width. (next_element_from_buffer): Don't call bidi_paragraph_init if we are at ZV. Fixes a crash when reseated to ZV by try_window_reusing_current_matrix. (display_and_set_cursor, erase_phys_cursor): Handle negative HPOS, which happens with R2L glyph rows. Fixes a crash when inserting a character at end of an R2L line. (set_cursor_from_row): Don't be fooled by truncated rows: don't treat them as having zero-width characters. Improve comments. Don't reverse pos_before and pos_after for reversed glyph rows. Set cursor.x to negative value when the cursor might be on the left fringe. (IT_OVERFLOW_NEWLINE_INTO_FRINGE): For R2L lines, consider the left fringe, not the right one. (notice_overwritten_cursor, draw_phys_cursor_glyph) (erase_phys_cursor): For reversed cursor_row, support cursor on the left fringe. fringe.c (update_window_fringes): For R2L rows, swap the bitmaps of continuation indicators on the fringes. (draw_fringe_bitmap): For reversed glyph rows, allow cursor on the left fringe. w32term.c (w32_draw_window_cursor): For reversed glyph rows, draw cursor on the left fringe. xterm.c (x_draw_window_cursor): For reversed glyph rows, draw cursor on the left fringe. dispnew.c (update_text_area): Handle reversed desired rows when the cursor is on the left fringe. (set_window_cursor_after_update): Limit cursor's hpos by -1 from below, not by 0, for when the cursor is on the left fringe. xdisp.c (unproduce_glyphs): New function. (display_line): Use it when produced glyphs are discarded from R2L glyph rows. (append_composite_glyph): In R2L rows, prepend the glyph rather than appending it. term.c (append_composite_glyph): In R2L rows, prepend the glyph rather than append it. Set up the resolved_level and bidi_type attributes of the appended glyph. (produce_special_glyphs): Mirror the backslash continuation character in R2L lines.

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New font handling mechanism with font backend method
----------------------------------------------------

The configure script, if invoked with "--enable-font-backend", checks
if libraries freetype and fontconfig exist.  If they are both
available, macro "USE_FONT_BACKEND" is defined in src/config.h.  In
that case, the existence of Xft library is checked too.

The new files are:
	font.h -- header providing font-backend related structures
		(most important ones are "struct font" and "struct
		font_driver"), macros, and etc.
	font.c -- main font handling code.
	xfont.c -- font-driver on X for X core fonts.
	ftfont.c -- generic font-driver for FreeType fonts providing
		device-independent methods of struct font_driver.
	xftfont.c -- font-driver on X using Xft for FreeType fonts
		utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c.
	ftxfont.c -- font-driver on X directly using FreeType fonts
		utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c.
	w32font.c -- font driver on w32 using Windows native fonts,
		corresponding to xfont.c
	w32uniscribe.c -- font driver on w32, using the uniscribe API
	        to provide complex script support for opentype fonts on
		Windows 2000 and later, or earlier versions of Windows
		with uniscribe installed as an add-on.

So we already have codes for X and w32.  For Mac it seems that we need
these files:
	atmfont.c -- font-driver on mac using ATM fonts, corresponding
		to xfont.c
As BDF fonts are currently used on w32, we may also implement these:
	bdffont.c -- generic font-driver for BDF fonts, corresponding to
		ftfont.c
	bdfw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 using BDF fonts,
		corresponding to ftxfont.c
But, as FreeType already supports BDF fonts, if FreeType and
Fontconfig are also available on w32, what we need may be:
	ftw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 directly using FreeType fonts
		utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c.

And, for those to work, macterm.c and macfns.c must be changed by the
similar way as xterm.c and xfns.c (the parts "#ifdef USE_FONT_BACKEND"
... "#endif" should be checked).

It may be interesting if Emacs supports a frame buffer directly and
has these font driver.
	ftfbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for FreeType fonts.
	bdffbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for BDF fonts.

Note: The fontset related codes are not yet matured to work well with
the font backend method.  So, for instance, even if you start Emacs
as something like this:
  % emacs -fn tahoma
Non-ASCII Latin characters will not be displayed by the font "tahoma".
In such a case, please try this:

(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin '("tahoma" . "unicode-bmp"))


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