On Tuesday 18 November 2003 10:46, Zarick Lau wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-11-18 at 06:16, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> > * What is the recommended way to set up fonts?
>
> It depends on what kind of application you are using.
> For me, I use GTK+2 based apps most of the time.
> All I need to dig is the fonts.conf
> It is because pango (which is the main library for text services for
> GTK2) will use Xft + fontconfig for reading fonts and rendering text,
> and fonts.conf is the config file for fontconfig.
> <I believe qt3 do the same too>
Hmm, my /etc/fonts/local.conf currently contains:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
<dir>/usr/share/fonts/mplus</dir>
<dir>/usr/local/share/fonts</dir>
</fontconfig>
However, arialuni.ttf, which is in /usr/local/share/fonts, didn't show up in
kde at all until I fell back to adding everything to /etc/X11/XF86Config. In
terms of modules, XF86Config contains:
Section "Module"
Load "dbe"
SubSection "extmod"
Option "omit xfree86-dga"
EndSubSection
Load "type1"
Load "freetype"
Load "glx"
Load "record"
Load "xtrap"
Load "speedo"
EndSection
> For those X baseds apps, the way is mkfontdir, if xf86 is using freetype
> module (here freetype module refers to the X font server module).
> And as I know freetype is the default module in xf86 ebuild
Would fontconfig still be used (once I can get it to work) if I list all fonts
in XF86Config as well for any of those non-Xft+ apps?
> However, you should know or heard about xtt, that module has make some
> good progress as well, and it provide good perf. and features for CJK.
> However, I don't have more in depth info on this, you can goto
> xfree-fonts if no luck here :)
I'll have a look into that. I've been aware of it but haven't yet taken the
time to find out what it is/does.
> > * How do I specify which fonts to pull characters from if they're not
> > available in the selected font?
>
> For gtk2, you can customize it in fonts.conf.
You mean /etc/fonts/fonts.conf or /etc/fonts/local.conf, considering
fonts.conf contains:
<include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include>
If that is the file you do mean, then it should apply to qt3 as well, right?
To the point, though. I've read that a substitute font can be set up to be
used when a selected font is missing a character range. However, what I'm
finding is that many fonts are missing characters from the range. This brings
causes text that "looks like this" to become " ook ike thi ". Can this be
configured with fontconfig as well?
> > This seems to change depending on what fonts are installed. I would find
> > it intuitive if it used the ugly fonts that come with X until something
> > else is specified, but that doesn't seem to be the case.
> >
> > * How can I specify which fonts should be alpha-blended and when?
>
> I think you mean anti-alias, right?
Yep, anti-aliasing. I had just woken up and was quite awake yet. ;-)
> It should be abled by default, anyway, check out the gconf key
> "/desktop/gnome/font_rendering"
> or have a look in qtconfig
Yep, qt is configured to anti-alias fonts.
> Also, you may need to check fonts.conf, the match and edit stuff can
> disabled aa for certain, if needed.
> thought, it shouldn't be the default case.
I have read that too. But seeing I apparantly can't get fontconfig to work, I
haven't experimented with the appropriate options yet.
Regards,
Jason
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