Improve the documentation of setting up fontsets

* doc/lispref/display.texi (Fontsets): Improve the accuracy of a
cross-reference to "Character Properties".

* doc/emacs/mule.texi (Fontsets, Modifying Fontsets): Improve the
documentation of fontsets and how to modify them.
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Eli Zaretskii 2020-05-23 15:14:27 +03:00
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@ -1326,16 +1326,17 @@ stored in the system and the available font names are defined by the
system, fontsets are defined within Emacs itself. Once you have
defined a fontset, you can use it within Emacs by specifying its name,
anywhere that you could use a single font. Of course, Emacs fontsets
can use only the fonts that the system supports. If some characters
can use only the fonts that your system supports. If some characters
appear on the screen as empty boxes or hex codes, this means that the
fontset in use for them has no font for those characters. In this
case, or if the characters are shown, but not as well as you would
like, you may need to install extra fonts. Your operating system may
have optional fonts that you can install; or you can install the GNU
Intlfonts package, which includes fonts for most supported
scripts.@footnote{If you run Emacs on X, you may need to inform the X
server about the location of the newly installed fonts with commands
such as:
like, you may need to install extra fonts or modify the fontset to use
specific fonts already installed on your system (see below). Your
operating system may have optional fonts that you can install; or you
can install the GNU Intlfonts package, which includes fonts for most
supported scripts.@footnote{If you run Emacs on X, you may need to
inform the X server about the location of the newly installed fonts
with commands such as:
@c FIXME? I feel like this may be out of date.
@c E.g., the intlfonts tarfile is ~ 10 years old.
@ -1376,14 +1377,20 @@ explicitly requested, despite its name.
@w{@kbd{M-x describe-fontset}} command. It prompts for a fontset
name, defaulting to the one used by the current frame, and then
displays all the subranges of characters and the fonts assigned to
them in that fontset.
them in that fontset. To see which fonts Emacs is using in a session
started without a specific fontset (which is what happens normally),
type @kbd{fontset-default @key{RET}} at the prompt, or just
@kbd{@key{RET}} to describe the fontset used by the current frame.
A fontset does not necessarily specify a font for every character
code. If a fontset specifies no font for a certain character, or if
it specifies a font that does not exist on your system, then it cannot
display that character properly. It will display that character as a
hex code or thin space or an empty box instead. (@xref{Text Display, ,
glyphless characters}, for details.)
hex code or thin space or an empty box instead. (@xref{Text Display,
, glyphless characters}, for details.) Or a fontset might specify a
font for some range of characters, but you may not like their visual
appearance. If this happens, you may wish to modify your fontset; see
@ref{Modifying Fontsets}, for how to do that.
@node Defining Fontsets
@section Defining Fontsets
@ -1542,10 +1549,10 @@ call this function explicitly to create a fontset.
Fontsets do not always have to be created from scratch. If only
minor changes are required it may be easier to modify an existing
fontset. Modifying @samp{fontset-default} will also affect other
fontsets that use it as a fallback, so can be an effective way of
fixing problems with the fonts that Emacs chooses for a particular
script.
fontset, usually @samp{fontset-default}. Modifying
@samp{fontset-default} will also affect other fontsets that use it as
a fallback, so can be an effective way of fixing problems with the
fonts that Emacs chooses for a particular script.
Fontsets can be modified using the function @code{set-fontset-font},
specifying a character, a charset, a script, or a range of characters
@ -1553,26 +1560,61 @@ to modify the font for, and a font specification for the font to be
used. Some examples are:
@example
;; Use Liberation Mono for latin-3 charset.
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'iso-8859-3
"Liberation Mono")
;; Prefer a big5 font for han characters.
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default"
'han (font-spec :registry "big5")
nil 'prepend)
;; Use DejaVu Sans Mono as a fallback in fontset-startup
;; before resorting to fontset-default.
(set-fontset-font "fontset-startup" nil "DejaVu Sans Mono"
nil 'append)
;; Use MyPrivateFont for the Unicode private use area.
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" '(#xe000 . #xf8ff)
"MyPrivateFont")
;; Use Liberation Mono for latin-3 charset.
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'iso-8859-3
"Liberation Mono")
;; Use DejaVu Sans Mono as a fallback in fontset-startup
;; before resorting to fontset-default.
(set-fontset-font "fontset-startup" nil "DejaVu Sans Mono"
nil 'append)
@end example
@noindent
@xref{Fontsets, , , elisp, GNU Emacs Lisp Reference Manual}, for more
details about using the @code{set-fontset-font} function.
@cindex script of a character
@cindex codepoint of a character
If you don't know the character's codepoint or the script to which it
belongs, you can ask Emacs. With point at the character, type
@w{@kbd{C-u C-x =}} (@code{what-cursor-position}), and this
information, together with much more, will be displayed in the
@file{*Help*} buffer that Emacs pops up. @xref{Position Info}. For
example, Japanese characters belong to the @samp{kana} script, but
Japanese text also mixes them with Chinese characters so the following
uses the @samp{han} script to set up Emacs to use the @samp{Kochi
Gothic} font for Japanese text:
@example
(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'han "Kochi Gothic")
@end example
@noindent
@cindex CKJ characters
(For convenience, the @samp{han} script in Emacs is set up to support
all of the Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, a.k.a.@: @acronym{CJK},
characters, not just Chinese characters.)
@vindex script-representative-chars
For the list of known scripts, see the variable
@code{script-representative-chars}.
Fontset settings like those above only affect characters that the
default font doesn't support, so if the @samp{Kochi Gothic} font
covers Latin characters, it will not be used for displaying Latin
scripts, since the default font used by Emacs usually covers Basic
Latin.
@cindex ignore font
@cindex fonts, how to ignore
@vindex face-ignored-fonts

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@ -3600,9 +3600,9 @@ characters in the range @var{from} and @var{to} (inclusive).
@var{character} may be a charset (@pxref{Character Sets}). In that
case, use @var{font-spec} for all the characters in the charset.
@var{character} may be a script name (@pxref{Character Properties}).
In that case, use @var{font-spec} for all the characters belonging to
the script.
@var{character} may be a script name (@pxref{Character Properties,
char-script-table}). In that case, use @var{font-spec} for all the
characters belonging to the script.
@var{character} may be @code{nil}, which means to use @var{font-spec}
for any character which no font-spec is specified.