Re: ps-print: Patch for international printing with bdf fonts

Mike> The attached patch tries to enable printing using bdf-fonts. Mike> With this patch I can print most languages from the Mike> hello-file. Can you please check whether this patch makes Mike> sense and if yes include it into the XEmacs packages? Steve, this stuff is such a mess that I don't think this makes it worse. ;-) You know the status of ps-print-mule better than I do, though. Mike> One reason is that ps-mule.el uses a few coding-systems Mike> which have different names in XEmacs, I could solve that by Mike> defining aliases like: I hate this gratuitous bogosity. All of this should be invisible to users, there's no point in changing the names. Go ahead, define the aliases. Mike> Another problem is that 'coding-system-p' works differently Mike> on XEmacs, which I could fix with: I hate this .... Yes, do this too. There's some debate about changing the definition of coding-system-p in the future, but we need to do this for backward compatibility anyway. - (cond ((coding-system-p encoding) + (cond ((if (string-match "XEmacs" emacs-version) + (find-coding-system encoding) + (coding-system-p encoding)) Mike> The third problem I found was that the variable Mike> 'enable-multibyte-characters' happened to be nil It doesn't happen to be nil. I hate boneheaded design. Mike> If setting this to nil doesn't do anything, then I can just Mike> as well assume that this is always t in ps-mule for XEmacs: Fine. Mike> - '("/usr/local/share/emacs/fonts/bdf")) Mike> + '("/usr/share/fonts/bdf")) Mike> (korean-ksc5601 Mike> - (normal bdf "hanglm24.bdf" ps-mule-encode-7bit 2)) Mike> + (normal bdf "gulim24.bdf" ps-mule-encode-7bit 2)) Go ahead and make such changes. Please mark them as "#### make me customizable!" if they aren't already. Mike> I was able to print all languages from the hello-file except Mike> Amharic, Thai, and Tigrigna. When testing the bdf printing Mike> with the hello-file you have to remove the lines with these Mike> languages, otherwise you will get an error. What is the error? -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py