1 [README for SEMI kernel package (English Version)]
2 by MORIOKA Tomohiko <morioka@jaist.ac.jp>
3 $Id: README.en,v 1.6 1998-03-12 17:14:31 morioka Exp $
8 SEMI is a library to provide MIME feature for GNU Emacs. MIME is a
9 proposed internet standard for including content and headers other
10 than (ASCII) plain text in messages.
12 RFC 2045 : Internet Message Bodies
13 RFC 2046 : Media Types
14 RFC 2047 : Message Header Extensions
15 RFC 2048 : MIME Registration Procedures
16 RFC 2049 : MIME Conformance
18 SEMI has the following features:
20 - MIME style multilingual header (RFC 2047)
21 - MIME message viewer (mime-view-mode) (RFC 2045 .. 2049)
22 - MIME message composer (mime-edit-mode) (RFC 2045 .. 2049)
24 MIME message viewer and composer also support following features:
26 - filename handling by Content-Disposition field (RFC 1806)
27 - PGP/MIME security Multiparts (RFC 2015)
28 - application/pgp (draft-kazu-pgp-mime-00.txt; obsolete)
29 - text/richtext (RFC 1521; obsolete; preview only)
30 - text/enriched (RFC 1896)
32 Notice that this package does not contain MIME extender for any
33 MUAs and external methods. They are released as separated packages.
39 SEMI supports XEmacs 20.2 or later with mule, and Emacs 20.
41 SEMI does not support anything older than Emacs 19.28 or XEmacs
42 19.14. SEMI also does not support Emacs 19.29 to 19.34, XEmacs
43 19.15 or XEmacs 20.2 without mule, but SEMI may work with them.
45 If you use Emacs 20, don't set `enable-multibyte-characters' to
46 nil. (Maybe non mule setting requires to modify emu. In addition,
47 it is better to use terminal-coding-system feature)
49 SEMI requires APEL and MEL package. Please install them before
50 installing it. APEL package
53 ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/apel/
55 and MEL package is available at:
57 ftp://ftp.jaist.ac.jp/pub/GNU/elisp/mime/libs/
59 Notice that latest version of XEmacs may have latest version of APEL
60 and MEL, so you should not install them.
62 PGP/MIME and application/pgp require mailcrypt or tiny-pgp package.
64 The package enriched.el is required to compose text/enriched, so if
65 you use Emacs anything 19.28 or older (including official version of
66 MULE 2.3), WYSIWYG composing for text/enriched is not available.
74 You can specify the emacs command name, for example
76 % make install EMACS=xemacs
78 If `EMACS=...' is omitted, EMACS=emacs is used.
80 You can specify the prefix of the directory tree for Emacs Lisp
81 programs and shell scripts, for example:
83 % make install PREFIX=~/
85 If `PREFIX=...' is omitted, the prefix of the directory tree of the
86 specified emacs command is used (perhaps /usr/local).
88 For example, if PREFIX=/usr/local and EMACS 19.34 is specified, it
89 will create the following directory tree:
91 /usr/local/share/emacs/19.34/site-lisp/ --- emu
92 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/apel/ --- APEL
93 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/bitmap/ --- BITMAP-MULE
94 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/mu/ --- MU
95 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/mel/ --- MEL
96 /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp/semi/ --- SEMI
98 You can specify site-lisp directory, for example
100 % make install LISPDIR=~/share/emacs/lisp
102 If `LISPDIR=...' is omitted, site-lisp directory of the specified
103 emacs command is used (perhaps /usr/local/share/emacs/site-lisp or
104 /usr/local/lib/xemacs/site-lisp).
106 You can specify other optional settings by editing the file
107 semi/SEMI-CFG. Please read semi/README.en and comments in
116 If you are using Emacs or Mule, please add directory of emu, apel,
117 bitmap, mu, mel and semi to load-path. If you install by default
118 setting, you can write subdirs.el for example:
120 --------------------------------------------------------------------
121 (normal-top-level-add-to-load-path
122 '("apel" "bitmap" "mu" "mel" "semi"))
123 --------------------------------------------------------------------
125 If you are using XEmacs, there are no need of setting about
130 Please insert the following into your ~/.emacs:
138 To get started, please read semi/README.en.
140 RFC's 822, 1806, 1847, 1896, 2015, 2045, 2046, 2047, 2048 and 2049
141 are available via anonymous ftp:
142 ftp://ds.internic.net/rfc/
148 If you write bug-reports and/or suggestions for improvement, please
149 send them to the tm Mailing List:
151 bug-tm-en@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (English)
152 bug-tm-ja@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (Japanese)
154 Via the tm ML, you can report SEMI bugs, obtain the latest release
155 of SEMI, and discuss future enhancements to SEMI. To join the tm
158 tm-ja-admin@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (Japanese)
159 tm-en-admin@chamonix.jaist.ac.jp (English)
161 Since the user registration is done manually, please write the mail
162 body in human-recognizable language (^_^).