Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site sphinx.UChicago.UUCP
Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!gargoyle!sphinx!sas1
From: sas1@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP (Stuart Schmukler)
Newsgroups: net.emacs
Subject: EMACS display code
Message-ID: <764@sphinx.UChicago.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 2-Jul-85 15:16:09 EDT
Article-I.D.: sphinx.764
Posted: Tue Jul  2 15:16:09 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 3-Jul-85 20:29:23 EDT
Organization: U. Chicago - Computation Center
Lines: 22

After having found net.emacs I have watched the GNU copyright discussion fly
past my terminal; I now have my two cents to throw in.

--FLAME-ON--
The display code in EMACS needs to be rewriten to allow of the display of
Non-ASCII characters.  Say the troff set.

Now a little background.  In the past I (and others) have tried to convert
the non-programming people here to EMACS.  We have failed for a number of
reasons, but the _biggie_ was the display and editing of non-roman
characters.

I looked long and carefully at the TOPS-20 EMACS manuals and could not find
a hook that I could use to switch display fonts.  (I did find DISPLAY
OVERPRINTING, but I didn't think that was all that I needed.)

I looked again when we got Gosling EMACS with our UNIX machine and I found
some references to spacial code for the SUN display, but I could not
figure-out if I could use it on terminals like the HP26XX series,
MacTerminal, and the HDS200 series.

SaS