------------------------------------------------------------------- ISO-Latin2 through ISO-Latin6 encoded fonts in xcircuit ------------------------------------------------------------------- Xcircuit supports ISO-Latin2 encoding (Eastern Europe) since version 2.0a9. This feature is not set up by default because PostScript output is not (yet) possible without the use of the program "ogonkify". This support has been extended to other Latin encodings: ISO-Latin5 (Turkish) version 2.0a10 (6/14/99). Here's how to get ISO-Latin2 and other Latin encodings in xcircuit: ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1) Edit file lib/startup.script. Uncomment (remove the leading '%' from) lines 15-17 (the ISO-Latin2 font encoding files). Do this before "make install"; otherwise, the file will be in (depending on the definition of XCIRCUIT_LIB_DIR in the Makefile) /usr/local/lib/xcircuit-3.6/startup.script. In the Tcl/Tk version, this file is lib/tcl/xcstartup.tcl, or, after installation, /usr/local/lib/xcircuit-3.6/xcstartup.tcl. 2) When creating text, be sure to select "Text->Encoding-> ISO-Latin2" from the menu. This can be enabled by default simply by having a .xcircuitrc file in your home directory containing a line such as: set default font Times-RomanISO2 3) To get proper PostScript output on a printer, you will need to have the (separate) program "ogonkify", found at: http://www.dcs.ed.ac.uk/home/jec/ogonkify/ ftp://ftp.dcs.ed.ac.uk/pub/jec/programs "ogonkify" is necessary because PostScript does not contain ISO-Latin2 encoding by default. The accents such as the caron and ogonek exist in the font definition, but the correct alignments for putting them together need to be provided. Ogonkify does this best. 4) Every file containing ISO-Latin2 text must be postprocessed through "ogonkify" using the following command, before it will print correctly on a PostScript printer: ogonkify -e L2 -ATH file.ps | perl -ne \ 's/StandardEncoding/ISOLatin2Encoding/g;\ s/ exch defi/ISO2 exch defi/g;print' > file.out.ps Switches: -A does Courier, -T does Times-Roman, and -H does Helvetica; use only what's necessary to keep the output file smaller. "-e L2" signifies Latin2 encoding; this is not strictly necessary as ogonkify defaults to L2. All other Latin encodings require the -e switch. Note that the output is piped through a couple of perl commands. This may seem overly complicated; the first substitution corrects a bug in ogonkify output (which may disappear from releases of ogonkify in the future). The second substitution allows xcircuit to specify the ISO-Latin2 encodings separately from ISO-Latin1 and Adobe Standard encodings, so that any and all encodings can be "mixed and matched" in the same file and even the same label. 5) In a nutshell: xcircuit defines each ISO-Latin2 font name as the original name followed by the string "ISO2". Xcircuit can then load the file and interpret the font encodings unambiguously. However, the new ISO-Latin2 font names are not defined by PostScript. Running "ogonkify" in the manner shown above will add a true PostScript definition for each of the ISO-Latin2 fonts. Without "ogonkify", a PostScript printer or interpreter will either produce an error or else substitute a default font for the unrecognized one. 6) The "ogonkification" of the file will not affect xcircuit's ability to read it back into the program. xcircuit will continue to display the ISO-Latin2 text correctly regardless of whether or not the file has been run through "ogonkify". However, the header material inserted by "ogonkify" will be lost every time xcircuit writes the file back out. 7) Other ISO-LatinX encodings: Currently ISO-Latin5 is supported, and additional encodings will be created as I get requests for them. Follow the instructions above for ISO-Latin2, but replace all occurences of "2" with "5". e.g., ogonkify -e L5 -ATH file.ps | perl -ne \ 's/StandardEncoding/ISOLatin5Encoding/g;\ s/ exch defi/ISO5 exch defi/g;print' > file.out.ps and add lines % times_romaniso5.xfe loadfontencoding % courieriso5.xfe loadfontencoding % helveticaiso5.xfe loadfontencoding to psfiles/builtins.lps (or /usr/local/lib/xcircuit-2.0/builtins.lps, if already installed). 8) Version 3.6.36 corrects a long-existing mistake in which only X11 keysyms 0-255 are accepted as keyboard-entry. By converting the X11 keysyms to keycodes, ISO-Latin2 characters can be typed directly into XCircuit from the keyboard. It would be nice, though, if XCircuit would auto-detect the expected encoding from the keysym and insert the proper font switch, loading fonts if necessary.