Re: the greek fonts used in Mule are very small: xemacs can display bigger fonts
>>>> "Julian" == Julian Bradfield
<jcb+xeb(a)jcbradfield.org> writes:
On 2009-04-21, Uwe Brauer <oub(a)mat.ucm.es> wrote:
Obviously your fonts are not preserved when you mail out.
Right I checked later with seamonkey.
> So the question is how can I configure quail so that it uses the
> second type of fonts. The funny thing is, I opened greek.el and in
> the quail input rules \alpha is displayed using the big font
> B. However when I select the input method greek in the buffer
> appear chars displayed using font A. I am confused.
Have another look at greek.el. The first set of rules,
which you will probably see in a big font, is the greek-jis input
method, which creates characters in a Japanese charset that includes
the Greek alphabet. After that, there's a second set of rules, which
creates characters in the ISO-8859-7 charset, i.e. real Greek. These
are, indeed, displayed in a rather small font on my systems.
Right, I was not careful enough you are right, why isn't greek-jis used
for input?
When you cut'n'paste from Wikipedia, the characters are in
Unicode,
and they get converted to native MULE charsets according to your
settings. As far as I know, the 21.4 mule-ucs prefers greek to jisx,
so I'm a bit surprised that you see large fonts by cutting and
pasting. (Incidentally, vanilla 21.4 doesn't support cut'n'paste in
unicode, so I guess you must be using Aidan's utf-8 cut'n'paste code?)
Have you done anything to make Japanese a preferred language?
Hm I am using Kubuntu 8.04 and the precompiled version. May be the
Ubuntu/Debian developers included that code?
The right answer is to change your greek font to one you prefer.
Using the JISX characters is not the right answer!
Why? Why can't I used them for display, and why can't I use them within
quail greek.el?
Try -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--20-200-75-75-c-100-iso8859-7
yes I did that but the result is rather ugly, I'd say.
Uwe
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