Eli Zaretskii <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > '(ps-font-family (quote Palatino)) > > '(ps-lpr-command "lp") > > '(ps-multibyte-buffer (quote bdf-font-except-latin)) > > '(ps-paper-type (quote a4)) > > '(ps-printer-name-option "") > > > > I guess that's what you mean, right? > > I don't know, since I don't quite understand where this fragment > belongs to.
Ok, here's the part of the documentation (M-x customize-variable ps-multibyte-buffer) ......snip..... Valid values are: nil This is the value to use the default settings which is by default for printing buffer with only ASCII and Latin characters. The default setting can be changed by setting the variable `ps-mule-font-info-database-default' differently. The initial value of this variable is `ps-mule-font-info-database-latin' (see documentation). `non-latin-printer' This is the value to use when you have a Japanese or Korean PostScript printer and want to print buffer with ASCII, Latin-1, Japanese (JISX0208 and JISX0201-Kana) and Korean characters. At present, it was not tested the Korean characters printing. If you have a korean PostScript printer, please, test it. `bdf-font' This is the value to use when you want to print buffer with BDF fonts. BDF fonts include both latin and non-latin fonts. BDF (Bitmap Distribution Format) is a format used for distributing X's font source file. BDF fonts are included in `intlfonts-1.2' which is a collection of X11 fonts for all characters supported by Emacs. In order to use this value, be sure to have installed `intlfonts-1.2' and set the variable `bdf-directory-list' appropriately (see lips-bdf.el for documentation of this variable). `bdf-font-except-latin' This is like `bdf-font' except that it is used PostScript default fonts to print ASCII and Latin-1 characters. This is convenient when you want or need to use both latin and non-latin characters on the same buffer. See `ps-font-family', `ps-header-font-family' and `ps-font-info-database'. Any other value is treated as nil. ......snip..... so, the default setting is `nil' ... and Umlauts ARE latin characters, so I would wonder why `nil' wouldn't fit well. Ok, anyway, setting to `bdf-font-except-latin' didn't change that behaviour. I checked with simply printing the buffer - without postscripting - which works fine including all the Umlauts. Also a2ps works fine printing Umlauts. > Could you simply set the option manually, before using > ps-print-buffer, and see if that helps? Did that too ... no effect ... > You also need to restart Emacs after changing .emacs. Oh ... I thought "byte-compile and load" would do the same ... sorry. Anyway, I left emacs and restarted without any changed behaviour. > > no Umlauts with PS Print Buffer (B+W). > > What do you see in print instead of Umlauts? fine lined carrets > Also, does your Postscript printer support Umlauts and other accented > characters? As said above, all other printing-systems work without any problems. Btw, I use a HP LaserJet4000N ... a network printer - and I checked before if the fonts (palatino) are supported ... they certainly are. > Finally, what Latin-N encoding do you use by default in your Emacs? > That is, what is your locale? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $LANG [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/locale.gen de_DE ISO-8859-1 de_DE.UTF-8 UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] UTF-8 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ISO-8859-15 en_US ISO-8859-1 en_US.ISO-8859-15 ISO-8859-15 en_US.UTF-8 UTF-8 my .emacs holds the following settings: '(current-language-environment "Latin-9") '(default-input-method "latin-9-prefix") ... I need latin-9 prefix since I use a US keyboard well ... bunches of informations here ... :-) ray _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs