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Special symbols
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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"