[XeTeX] emacs and xetex

[Neal Becker]

On Friday 21 March 2008, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-03-21 at 17:33 +0100, François Patte wrote:
> > Up to now, my Emacs config shows me small rectangles for every
> > devanagari character for instance. So, I have a two (or three) step
> > work to typeset a multiscript document: all latex commands and french
> > text with emacs, then, I switch to yudit, and fill all unicode text
> > which I cannot key in in Emacs....
>
> On Ubuntu Linux, there is a version of GNU Emacs available that does
> Unicode/XFT fonts.  For versions of Ubuntu prior to Hardy, this is
> available as an addon---http://peadrop.com/blog/2007/01/06/pretty-emacs/
> has more information on how to get this going.
>
> In Ubuntu's forthcoming Hardy release, the emacs-snapshot package will
> have support for system fonts by default.  This way, you can use Unicode
> fonts, with the added bonus of them being antialiased on the screen.
> The only problem I have had thus far is entering certain accented
> characters, though this problem goes back quite a ways for me.
> Essentially, when I enter é or è or another accented letter on the
> keyboard, GNU Emacs seems to treat it as the beginning of a
> command---for example, éee becomes 饥, which is rather confusing to me.
> It should wind up being "éee", not whatever it turns into...
>
> 	--- Mike

Using either the emacs-23.0.60 snapshot, or xemacs-21.5beta28, I just pull up 
kcharselect, copy the unicode char I want to clipboard, and paste.