Re: hebrew in emacs

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 07.11.2007 um 12:24 schrieb Eddy-14:

> the X11 fonts I tried are difficult to read in hebrew, they don't  
> go left to
> right, and they put the vowels after the consonants (instead of  
> under or
> above).

I am quite sure that GNU Emacs can't do that. It can work when the  
application is reading the tables inside a font file that tell the  
application to create these ligatures or combinations from the  
glyphs. GNU Emacs is not such an application, even if Unicode Emacs  
23.0.60 can make use of OT fonts via libotf.

> I have tried using xfd

You can also use xfontsel and give it a Hebrew text to display ...  
via an X resource, most probably via XTerm*sampleTextUCS. Restricting  
the encoding and the spacing you'll have just a few choices.

> or, better: I use for my other applications a great font, but it is  
> not a
> X11 font. is there a way to "import" it to emacs?

Convert it to TTF or some PostScript fonts (for the glyph ranges  
each) and then integrate them into X11. The xset utility tells you  
where it searches for fonts. After putting the fonts into such a path  
component you'll need to run mkfontdir and mkfontscale (all with root  
privileges) to make X11 see them. A final 'xset fp rehash' will make  
them available to all X clients that have been launched afterwards ...

Did you invoke C-h H to see the HELLO file? When you're able to  
create a fonts or fontsets list with all your system's fonts as pop- 
up menu for GNU Emacs, you can simply walk through all these entries  
and see how the HELLO file looks with each ...

--
Greetings

  Pete

Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.