GNU Emacs Installation Guide
-Copyright (c) 1992, 1994, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2001 Free software Foundation, Inc.
+Copyright (c) 1992, 94, 96, 97, 2000, 01, 02 Free software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for copying permissions.
* intlfonts-VERSION.tar.gz
-The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts that Emacs needs in
-order to display international characters. If you see a non-ASCII
-character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have a font for
-it. You might find a font in the intlfonts distribution. If you do
-have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters don't look
-right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the intlfonts
-distribution might look better.
+The intlfonts distribution contains X11 fonts in various encodings
+that Emacs can use to display international characters. If you see a
+non-ASCII character appear as a hollow box, that means you don't have
+a font for it. You might find one in the intlfonts distribution. If
+you do have a font for a non-ASCII character, but some characters
+don't look right, or appear improperly aligned, a font from the
+intlfonts distribution might look better.
The fonts in the intlfonts distribution are also used by the ps-print
package for printing international characters. The file
* Extra fonts
+At first, Emacs does not include fonts and does not install them. You
+must do this yourself.
+
To take proper advantage of Emacs 21's mule-unicode charsets, you need
-a Unicode font. For information on Unicode fonts for X, see
-<URL:http://czyborra.com/unifont/>,
-<URL:http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/> and
+a suitable font. For `Unicode' (ISO 10646) fonts for X, see
+<URL:http://dvdeug.dhis.org/unifont.html> (packaged in Debian),
+<URL:http://openlab.ring.gr.jp/efont/> (packaged in Debian). (In
+recent Debian versions, there is an extensive `misc-fixed' iso10646-1
+in the default X installation.) Perhaps also see
<URL:http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/%7Emgk25/ucs-fonts.html>.
+
<URL:http://czyborra.com/charsets/> has basic fonts for Emacs's
ISO-8859 charsets.
XFree86 release 4 (from <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/> and mirrors)
contains font support for most, if not all, of the charsets that Emacs
-supports. The font files should be usable separately with older X
-releases.
+currently supports, including iso10646-1 encoded fonts for use with
+the mule-unicode charsets. The font files should also be usable with
+older X releases. Note that XFree 4 contains many iso10646-1 fonts
+with minimal character repertoires, which can cause problems -- see
+etc/PROBLEMS.
BDF fonts etl-unicode.tar.gz used by ps-print and ps-mule to print
Unicode characters are available from <URL:ftp://ftp.x.org/contrib/fonts/>
and <URL:ftp://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/X.Org/contrib/fonts/>.
+* GNU/Linux development packages
-The new Indian implementation uses the ISFOC standard fonts. We use
-CDAC ISFOC fonts to display the Devanagari script in Emacs. They are
-copyrighted, but we received permission to use them in Emacs from the
-font developers. These fonts can be obtained from the internet, or
-may be found in C-DAC products (including downloadable ones). For
-examle, you can search the CDAC Devanagari font `dvsr0ntt.ttf' by
-using some search engines and they will guide you to appropriate URLs
-to obtain them.
-
-After you've downloaded the fonts, then run the following Makefile
-to create the appropriate BDF/PCF fonts. (You will need `ttf2bdf',
-equipped with freetype 1, to create BDF file.)
-
-TTFS= asdr0ntt.ttf:Assamese\
- bndr0ntt.ttf:Bengali\
- dvsr0ntt.ttf:Devanagari\
- gjav0ntt.ttf:Gujarati\
- knum0ntt.ttf:Kannada\
- mlkr0ntt.ttf:Malayalam\
- orsr0ntt.ttf:Oriya\
- pnam0ntt.ttf:Punjabi\
- sdsr0ntt.ttf:Sanskrit\
- tlhm0ntt.ttf:Telugu\
- tmvl0ntt.ttf:Tamil
-
-all:
- for f in ${TTFS}; do \
- ttf=`echo $$f | sed 's/:.*$$//'`; \
- reg=`echo $$f | sed 's/[^:]*://'`; \
- base=`basename $$ttf .ttf`; \
- echo Converting "$$ttf to $$base-XX.bdf/pcf with registry $$reg"; \
- for i in 16 24; do \
- ttf2bdf -p $${i} -r 100 -l 0_255 $$ttf > temp; \
- sed "/^FONT /s/ISO10646-1/$$reg-CDAC/" <temp >$$base-$$i.bdf; \
- bdftopcf $$base-$$i.bdf > $$base-$$i.pcf; \
- done; \
- done
- rm -f temp
-
-clean:
- rm -f *.pcf *.bdf
+Many GNU/Linux systems do not come with development packages by
+default; they just include the files that you need to run Emacs, but
+not those you need to compile it. For example, to compile Emacs with
+X11 support, you may need to install the special `X11 development'
+package. For example, in April 2003, the package names to install
+were `XFree86-devel' and `Xaw3d-devel' on RedHat. On Debian, the
+packages necessary to build the installed version should be
+sufficient; they can be installed using `apt-get build-dep emacs21' in
+Debian 3 and above.
DETAILED BUILDING AND INSTALLATION:
--without-png for PNG image support
Use --without-toolkit-scroll-bars to disable LessTif/Motif or Xaw3d
-scroll bars. --without-xim disables the use of X Input Methods, and
---disable-largefile omits support for files larger than 2GB on systems
-which support that. Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
+scroll bars.
+
+Use --without-xim to inhibit the default use of X Input Methods. In
+this case, the X resource useXIM can be used to turn on use of XIM.
+
+Use --disable-largefile omits support for files larger than 2GB on
+systems which support that.
+
+Use --without-sound to disable sound support.
The `--prefix=PREFIXDIR' option specifies where the installation process
should put emacs and its data files. This defaults to `/usr/local'.
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