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Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs
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Jason Rumney |
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Re: Arabic font for gnu emacs |
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Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:01:54 -0800 (PST) |
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On Feb 26, 5:35 pm, Peter Dyballa <Peter_Dyba...@Web.DE> wrote:
> No, not yet. GNU Emacs is missing means to use particular tables of
> TrueType or OpenType fonts.
Emacs 23 uses such tables already for Indic scripts, what is currently
missing is support for RTL languages.
> GNU Emacs is primarily an editor for programming languages. These are
> usually based on Latin scripts. And for legibility reasons the fonts
> used are mono-spaced, i.e., the characters on the (text) lines are
> lined up in fixed columns.
Emacs has supported proportionally spaced fonts since 21.1, and non-
Latin languages since 20.1, so neither of these is the source of any
problem.
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