[Mac-emacs-users] Version d5 Released

[Andrew C. <ch...@tr...>]

Hi Everyone,

I write to announce that version d5 of GNU Emacs for Mac OS is now
available from my web site:

  http://www.csis.hku.hk/~choi/emacs/index.html

This is the actual release of d5 and not the prerelease of d5
available earlier.

If the download is slow there, you can also try the SourceForge FTP
site (which is sometimes hard to get it):

  ftp://mac-emacs.sourceforge.net/pub/mac-emacs/

The most important new feature in this release is fontsets and
international character sets support.  A set of fonts converted from
free GNU international fonts for use with it is also available from
the web page.

Even if you normally use a single language, bold, italic, and
bold-italic fonts are now supported which makes font-lock mode real
pretty under the suitable choice of fonts (ETL-Fixed-ISO8859-1, size
16).  Please look at the screen shots on the web page.

The fontset implementation is a full implementation in the sense that
any language supported by Unix Emacs is supported by the Mac version
as long as a set of fonts is provided for that language.  The fonts
that I distribute include the following encodings:

  iso8859-1, iso8859-2, iso8859-3, iso8859-4, iso8859-5, iso8859-6,
  iso8859-7, iso8859-8, iso8859-9, tis620.2529-1 (Thai),
  jisx0201.1976-0 (Japanese Katakana), viscii1.1-1 (Vietnamese),
  MuleLao-1 (Lao).

Running under Mac OS with WorldScript II and two-byte fonts installed,
the Mac version also supports:

  big-5 (Traditional Chinese), gb2312 (Simplify Chinese), jisx0208
  (Japanese), ksc5601 (Korean).

LEIM is fully supported so any of Emacs's input methods can be used,
which is convenient for people who must switch between Unix and the
Mac OS.  One can also use input methods and keyboard layouts supported
by the Mac OS.

A new FAQ collects in one place what used to be in the README file, my
guestbook, discussion groups, and answers I have given by E-mail.

Finder drag-and-drop is now supported.

There is a new document icon (you will probably need to rebuild your
desktop file to see it).

I am only making this announcement to the mailing lists and will wait
a few more days before I do so more publicly.  Please help me by
downloading these files and trying them.  Let me know if you have
questions or if you encounter problems.

Thank you for your help.  Enjoy the program!

Andrew.