Notes on fonts, Debian packages.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 15 deletions

diff --git a/INSTALL b/INSTALL
index d41c3841e78..8b206596298 100644
--- a/INSTALL
+++ b/INSTALL
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 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.
 
 
@@ -93,13 +93,13 @@ ADDITIONAL DISTRIBUTION FILES
 
 * 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
@@ -156,17 +156,23 @@ 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/>
@@ -179,8 +185,10 @@ 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 `xlibs-dev' and `libxaw7-dev' on Debian and `XFree86-devel' and
-`Xaw3d-devel' on RedHat.
+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.
 
 
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