On Thu, 07 Mar 2002, Akira TAGOH wrote: > > Hi, > > I propose here how to get a default font for FreeType. > > TrueType font has CodePageRange on OS/2 table. if we can > have an exchange table between locale and CP, could we use > it as default font? > I think that it's useful for some languages which standard > PS fonts doesn't support. > > 1. we check it whether standard PS fonts support your locale > or not. if it's supported, dia decide a default font.
Which would basically just mean the latin1 locales, yes? > 2. if not so, then dia find the TrueType font. check it > whether that font support your locale or not. if it's > supported, make a list temporarily. > 3. repeat 2 step until finish to find all of TTF. I've had trouble getting the TT tables via freetype. Until that is resolved, I may not be able to figure out what a TTF supports. > 4. if have a configuration file as .diarc (for example, can > be written a font as gtkrc), find a font whether a list > has the font name which is specified or not. if a list > has it, decide a default font, if not, uses a first entry > on a list as default font. I don't get this at all, sorry. -Lars -- Lars Clausen (http://shasta.cs.uiuc.edu/~lrclause)| H�rdgrim of Numenor "I do not agree with a word that you say, but I |---------------------------- will defend to the death your right to say it." | Where are we going, and --Evelyn Beatrice Hall paraphrasing Voltaire | what's with the handbasket? _______________________________________________ Dia-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dia-list
