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authorEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>1999-01-14 11:25:35 +0000
committerEli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>1999-01-14 11:25:35 +0000
commit1d173668ca2311b561f8fa627e481a0de1e29655 (patch)
tree938f6110efd54feb0f5d2bcde8b4f09e83860064 /INSTALL
parent8a6387ed6c074bd949b656863df47ea9c246eb95 (diff)
downloademacs-1d173668ca2311b561f8fa627e481a0de1e29655.tar.gz
Explain that intlfonts are used by ps-print as well.
Add instructions for Leim and intlfonts to the MSDOG section.
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@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ it. You might find a font in the intlfonts distribution. If 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
+lisp/ps-mule.el defines the .bdf font files required for printing
+each character set.
+
The intlfonts distribution contains its own installation instructions,
in the intlfonts/README file.
@@ -583,6 +588,22 @@ To unpack Emacs with djtar, type this command:
(This assumes that the Emacs distribution is called `emacs.tgz' on
your system.)
+If you need to type international characters, you will need to unpack
+the Leim distribution (see the description near the beginning of this
+file). You unpack it from the same directory where you unpacked
+Emacs. To unpack Leim with djtar, assuming the Leim distribution is
+called `leim.tgz', type this command:
+
+ djtar -x leim.tgz
+
+If you want to print international characters, install the intlfonts
+distribution. For this, create a directory called, `fonts', under the
+Emacs top-level directory (usually called `emacs-XX.YY') created by
+unpacking emacs.tgz, chdir into the directory emacs-XX.YY/fonts, and
+type this:
+
+ djtar -x intlfonts.tgz
+
When unpacking is done, a directory called `emacs-XX.YY' will be
created, where XX.YY is the Emacs version. To build and install
Emacs, chdir to that directory and type these commands:
@@ -596,10 +617,12 @@ sibling directory called bin. For example, if you build in directory
/emacs, installing moves the executables from /emacs/src and
/emacs/lib-src to the directory /emacs/bin, so you can then delete the
subdirectories /emacs/src and /emacs/lib-src if you wish. The only
-subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. The bin
-subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos subdirectory
-includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might find useful
-if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
+subdirectories you need to keep are bin, lisp, etc and info. (If you
+installed Leim, keep the leim subdirectory, and if you installed
+intlfonts, keep the fonts directory and all its sibdirectories as well.)
+The bin subdirectory should be added to your PATH. The msdos
+subdirectory includes a PIF and an icon file for Emacs which you might
+find useful if you run Emacs under MS Windows.
Emacs on MSDOS finds the lisp, etc and info directories by looking in
../lisp, ../etc and ../info, starting from the directory where the