Isaiah Beerbower wrote: > Hello all, > > A while back there was some discussion about the way GNUstep handles > fonts. The two ways discussed were nfont bundles and fontconfig. I > like nfonts because they give you more control over how your fonts are > organized, but I also like the fontconfig method because it makes font > installation easier for fonts which don't need to be organized beyond > the computers knowhow. I would like to propose a new method which > gives both advantages. > > If we used a GNUstep maintained font index plist as our only cache and > used fontconfig + FreeType for retrieving information from font files > except when we come across an nfont (in which case we would read its > plist) we would receive many advantages from both sides: > > * Those who want to distribute a font family in a pre-organized way > can do so using an nfont. > > * Those who don't, won't have to do anything. > > * Those who want to keep their fonts organized a specific way can > either put them all into nfonts, or change values in the font index. > > * Those who don't care aren't bothered. > > * GNUstep gets to choose which folders get indexed. > > We can also put other information in the index (if we want) such as > wether an installed font is enabled or not. > > The index I am envisioning at this point would be a plist with an > array of dictionaries, each dictionary holding the path to a font > file, the file's last modification date, the font's family name, > postscript name, style, whether it should use anti-aliasing or not, > etc., etc.. > > I would like this for cairo, but if it can be coded once then used in > art also, that would be great to. > > I'm ready to implement such a thing if acceptable. >
Sounds like a nice idea to me, but I would prefer to see code, before I judge on it :-) As I understand it, the nfont model provides more information per font than we can get from FT and FC. How would your code try to substitute values for that? _______________________________________________ Discuss-gnustep mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss-gnustep
