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Re: Printing
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Printing |
Date: |
Thu, 02 Apr 2009 22:37:14 +0300 |
> From: Richard M Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:02:19 -0400
>
> In this area, we basically didn't move much since ps-mule was
> introduced more than 10 years ago. Based on that experience, I fear
> that if we stick to PostScript as the only decent printing facility in
> Emacs, we will not improve our support of printing non-ASCII text for
> the foreseeable future. If you think otherwise, please explain how
> come we are still where we were in 1998.
>
> This is not the right way to choose the method for solving a problem.
> How much people have worked on this in the past is beside the point.
It's not beside the point: it can give us some idea how many people
are likely to work on it in the future.
> The real question about printing non-ASCII text is what needs to be
> done to make ps-print handle more character sets, and what the
> obstacles are.
I suspect there are no people among active contributors to Emacs who
know that. Otherwise, they would have already solved this.
> Supporting application-specific APIs could be a big pain in the neck.
> Each one of them could be a big pain in the neck.
It could, but then again it could be much easier, too.
> Would you like to collect the docs of the APIs used for finding and
> specifying fonts on the various systems, so people can see what work
> is really involved in supporting them?
I will add this to my todo, but it's so long that there's no knowing
if I ever get to doing that. Nor am I the ideal candidate, for that
matter: I'm not much of an expert on these APIs, I know only a couple
of them, and only very superficially.