5.4 Special symbols

This section currently applies only to Microsoft Windows.

WoMan provides partial experimental support for special symbols, initially only for MS-Windows and only for MS-Windows fonts. This includes both non-ASCII characters from the main text font and use of a separate symbol font. Later, support will be added for other font types (e.g. bdf fonts) and for the X Window System. In Emacs 20.7, the current support works partially under Windows 9x but may not work on any other platform.

woman-use-extended-font

A boolean value. If non-nil then WoMan may use non-ASCII characters from the default font. Default is t.

woman-use-symbol-font

A boolean value. If non-nil then WoMan may use the symbol font. Default is nil, mainly because it may change the line spacing (at least in NTEmacs 20).

woman-symbol-font

A string describing the symbol font to use for special characters. It should be compatible with, and the same size as, the default text font. Under MS-Windows, the default is

          "-*-Symbol-normal-r-*-*-*-*-96-96-p-*-ms-symbol"