I am afraid I don't know Debian well enough to be able to help, so I forward the letter to Debian Bug Tracking System (and Joshua M. Kwan who sent already some comments to BTS) and debian-emacsen list.
Best regards Janusz On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 02:57:51PM +0200, Janusz S. Bień wrote: > > On Thu, 07 Aug 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I think the number of developers is a monotonic function of the number > > of users, and emacs-bidi is already usable! > > > > The best way to widen the users base is to include emacs-bidi in > > popular Linux distributions. Therefore I would like to draw your attention > > to > > the Debian package which I descovered just today. > > > > It is available at > > > > http://www.pipapo.org/www/www/Files/emacsbidi > > $ grep emacs /etc/apt/sources.list > # bidi emacs > deb http://www.pipapo.org/www/www/Files/emacsbidi ./ > > I figured I am not an addicted emacs user, but being a debian user makes > me the perfect test-subject for the package > > > > > and can be installed in the standard way with apt-get, > > aptitude etc. > > > > Here is its description: > > > > Package: emacsbidi > > Version: 0.9-1 > > Section: editors > > Priority: optional > > Architecture: i386 > > Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3.1-1), libjpeg62, libncurses5 (>= 5.3.20021109-1), > > xlibs (>> 4.1.0) > > Conflicts: > > emacs20,emacs20-dl,emacs21,emacsen-common,emacs21-common,emacs-intl-fonts > > Installed-Size: 79084 > > Maintainer: Ayman Negm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Description: GNU Emacs with Arabic, Hebrew support > > Emacs-bidi it support UTF-8 and bidi language like > > Arabic, Persian and Hebrew. It's based on GNU Emacs21. > > This is a development version and not the official release. > > Please read http://www.m17n.org/emacs-bidi/index.html. > > > > I haven't tested it, because it is the *replacement* for the standard > > Gnu Emacs package. An obvious wishlist is to allow emacsbidi to > > coexist piecefully with other Emacsen, as it is the case with emacs 20 > > and emacs 21. > > ~# apt-get install emacsbidi > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > The following packages will be REMOVED: > emacs-intl-fonts emacs20 emacs21 emacs21-common emacsen-common > hyperlatex junior-programming junior-writing python-elisp x-symbol xemacs21 > xemacs21-bin xemacs21-gnome-nomule xemacs21-mule xemacs21-support > The following NEW packages will be installed: > emacsbidi > > Not just gnu emacs. xemacs as well. why??? > And why is this fonts package being removed? > > What the heck. I'll live without an emacs for a while... > > Installed... > > Oops... I can't figure out how to set up Hebrew font. > Can't see any emacs-bidi-specific documentation in the package. E.g.: > http://www.m17n.org/emacs-bidi/index.html as it is. > > Tried: > > emacsbidi -fn heb8x13 > > And typed some Hebrew chars using the X winodws's Hebrew keyboard. No > bidi rendering sighted. > > Using c-u c-\ for the input method: still no bidi rendering. > > A change of font: > > emacsbidi -fn '-misc-fixed-*-iso10646-1' > > And still no bidi for me. > > What am I missing? > > Do I really need special per-user settings? Can they be done > system-wide? Are there any sane defaultsthat could be given by the > package? > > > > > Thanks to official ITP (Intend to Package, > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?archive=no&bug=184831), > > there is a chance that emacsbidi will be included in the future > > official Debian distribution. > > -- > Tzafrir Cohen +---------------------------+ > http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir/ |vim is a mutt's best friend| > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +---------------------------+ > -- , dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW Prof. Janusz S. Bien, Warsaw Uniwersity [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.orient.uw.edu.pl/~jsbien/ http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~jsbien/
