[Fonts]Storing the cached font (fonts.cache) information

2002-09-06 Thread Keith Packard
Fontconfig currently stores cached information about fonts in per-directory files called 'fonts.cache-version'. These are stored right in the font directories which means they'll get copied and managed automatically as people move fonts around. However, storing cached information in what is

Re: [Fonts]Storing the cached font (fonts.cache) information

2002-09-06 Thread Zenith Lau
Hi, I think I've some opinion on this ~ However, storing cached information in what is ostensibly a read-only directory is unfriendly and violates the FSH guidelines. This data is just cached versions of data available from the font files themselves and so the FSH says it should

[Fonts]About Fcpackage and Li18nux2K.

2002-09-06 Thread Zenith Lau
Hi, I have recently read the Li18nux2K. The globalization spec. from li18nux.org. but it seems that, there is no any relation between fontconfig/Xft and this spec. IMHO, Li18nux2K regulate and standardize the direction of i18n while, fontconfig/Xft is complete

Re: [Fonts]About Fcpackage and Li18nux2K.

2002-09-06 Thread Roger So
On Sat, Sep 07, 2002 at 09:54:31AM +0800, Zenith Lau wrote: I have recently read the Li18nux2K. The globalization spec. from li18nux.org. but it seems that, there is no any relation between fontconfig/Xft and this spec. IMHO, Li18nux2K regulate and standardize the

Re: [Fonts]Storing the cached font (fonts.cache) information

2002-09-06 Thread Keith Packard
Around 9 o'clock on Sep 7, Zenith Lau wrote: Any directories not matching a configured prefix would map to themselves; this makes the existing configuration and cache files compatible. How do you resolve any fonts which doesn't located under /usr/share/fonts ? The prefix mapping would be

Re: [Fonts]Storing the cached font (fonts.cache) information

2002-09-06 Thread Zenith Lau
Hi, Any directories not matching a configured prefix would map to themselves; this makes the existing configuration and cache files compatible. How do you resolve any fonts which doesn't located under /usr/share/fonts ? The prefix mapping would be configurable; add a map from

Re: [Fonts]Compilation fail in fcpackage-2.0-Xrender

2002-09-06 Thread Keith Packard
Around 12 o'clock on Sep 7, Zenith Lau wrote: Cursor.c: In function `XRenderCreateCursor': Cursor.c:39: `X_RenderCreateCursor' undeclared (first use in this Hmm. This is a new request, but it should be defined in the 'render.h' file included with fcpackage. You may have to

Re: [Fonts]Storing the cached font (fonts.cache) information

2002-09-06 Thread Keith Packard
Around 13 o'clock on Sep 7, Zenith Lau wrote: Sorry, do you mean that, store the mapping table in the file system, you are talking about the first idea? I can either use a sequence of directories to encode the source font path, or I can create a file which maps path names to file names.