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> From: bohoomil <infinalityfonts@> > Date: June 24, 2014 22:54:14 CEST > To: René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin@> > Subject: Re: infinality in/under MacPorts > > On 24.06.14 at 10:40, René J.V. Bertin wrote: > > Hi again, > > I'm glad that freetype2 was built successfully. Let me answer the questions > now. > > >> On Tuesday June 24 2014, René J.V. Bertin wrote regarding "Re: infinality >> in/under MacPorts" >> >>> freetype-2.5.3-enable-valid.patch >>> upstream-15.05.2014.patch >>> infinality-2.5.3.patch >> >> Ok, that explains things - hopefully (:) ) Does one still get the offset >> corrections on the aflatin.c file as I got using only the infinality-2.5.3 >> patch? > > The offset is not a problem: it merely means that the patching application > found the code in a different location than expected. The context of the code > to > be altered was correct, though: if it hadn't been, the patching would have > been > interrupted. > >> Do you know of any legal obstacles that would explain why this has never >> been done by X.org? No (L)GPL-3 licensing on any of the patches, which would >> be a no-go for Apple? > > Not really. As per freetype2 home page, the patents related to bytecode > interpreter expired in May 2010. As a result, last year quite a few bits from > Infinality patchset were included in the official freetype2 code base. The > rest > of the Infinality code extends configuration capabilities of the TrueType > interpreter. > > The author of Infinality patchset hasn't been active for almost a year now. I > merely maintain the patches and, as far as my knowledge allows, try to adapt > them to recent freetype2 releases. Besides, I develop > fontconfig-infinality-ultimate library as a companion to freetype2-iu, plus > alternative Infinality settings. The complete collection of software in binary > packages is available in the repository for Arch Linux users. Other > distributions can use it all the same: all they need to do is grab the code, > patch the stock libraries and use additional configuration files. > >> You mean 3 patches, right, or 3 packages? MacPorts doesn't usually split up >> projects into multiple packages as is custom under Debian (I don't really >> know about Arch). > > To make best use of Infinality patches, you need three libraries tailored to > properly work together: > > 1. freetype2 -- in my project freetype2-infinality-ultimate, > 2. fontconfig -- in my project fontconfig-infinality-ultimate, > 3. cairo -- again, in my project, cairo-infinality-ultimate. > > Each component is built separately and serves a different purpose. I'm > currently > working on a documentation that would cover in details what a maintainer of > the > packages for their distros should take care of in order to create a fully > working and robust Infinality environment, the same one I develop for Arch > Linux. Briefly, take a look at the pkgbuild branch of the GitHub repo and > inspect three top-level packages: freetype2-iu, fontconfig-iu and cairo-iu. > The > `prepare` arrays in respective PKGBUILD scripts will give you an idea as of > which patches should be used for each package, and `package` arrays which > additional files should be copied during installation. It's actually a pretty > straightforward process: copy & paste & a bit of logic will do most of the > job. > >> BTW, to what extent is it obligatory to have the fontconfig infinality >> patches included? Are those required for basic functionality, or do they >> "just" provide goodies like per-font tweaking? > > fontconfig-infinality-ultimate is a required component of the > Infinality-compliant software collection, as is my infinality-settings.sh. > > >> I didn't think of making a screenshot before installing the variant > > Just for the record: this is what Novarese Bk BT Bold looks like on my machine > (all the pieces of software and config files come from my repo; I just created > an additional fontconfig config file for the Novarese font): > > http://bohoomil.com/img/arch_shots/2014-06-24_novarese-bold-gtk.png > http://bohoomil.com/img/arch_shots/2014-06-24_novarese-bold-ff.png > > Well, I hope you'll find any of the above snippets handy. Good luck and happy > tweaking. ;) > > Best regards, > > bohoomil > _______________________________________________ Xquartz-dev mailing list Xquartz-dev@lists.macosforge.org https://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo/xquartz-dev