Hi all, ok from what everyone told me on different side of the font characteristics, as well as what I read here and there, here is how I think it can be for mrxvt. I intend to do it in two steps:
1/ remove the distinction font/multifont. This is a false notion, it does not really exist. There is a distinction between fixed-width and proportional fonts, but this has nothing to do with the encoding being multibyte or not. Even in simple ASCII, fonts can be with-variable (usually the smaller is 'i' and the wider is 'W' in proportional ASCII). At the opposite, some asian characters can be small as ASCII characters. 2/ it is possible that there is some cases where you may want to mix fonts. For instance, during my tests, I found some fonts with japanese characters and ASCII (of course), but without the ISO-8859-1 characters (like the 'é', and all accented characters we use so much in French). Moreover if someone wants to mix arab, japanese and greek in the same text, I guess he will hardly find a single font supporting all of this. For this, I think it must be possible to select a list of fonts, ordered by preference, so that during display, if the character you need isn't found in the first font, you go to the second, and so on. In my idea, is that I will do the step 1 now for the first release. Then when I will have something working well this way, I will study the multiple font option... Is it ok for you? Jehan Jehan a écrit : > Hi, > > Gary Zhang a écrit : >> Hi, Jehan >> >> Maybe you can get some help with another mantainer Terminator, who is a >> Chinese. >> >>> I think it's because some fonts have good English characters, but no CJK >>> characters for instance. So the user can use their preferred CJK font >>> for the CJK chars, and a regular font for the English. >> As GI said, indeed some CJK fonts has NO embedded bitmap fonts, and users >> will feel tired when the fonts are small. Small embedded bitmap fonts >> are clearer >> than small fonts. >> > > I am not sure to understand what you say here. Is it better to use > bitmap font than xft fonts in your opinion? > >> I have no idea if using fontconfig can simplify font setting, but I do >> not like it. >> disadvantage: only .ttf/.ttc? >> > > Don't worry, I won't remove any feature. This is why I am trying to > understand everything, to be sure I don't remove by mistake (or rather > lack of knowledge) a feature some people use. > Yet I would like to do some cleaning, because I am pretty sure some > stuffs are useless and just polluting the code. > > Jehan > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge > Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes > Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world > http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ > _______________________________________________ > Materm-devel mailing list > Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel > mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Materm-devel mailing list Materm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/materm-devel mrxvt home page: http://materm.sourceforge.net
