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[Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontco
From: |
Juliusz Chroboczek |
Subject: |
[Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2 |
Date: |
09 Apr 2003 17:47:06 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 |
>> I believe that this is a fontconfig/Gnome bug, not something that
>> should be fixed at the FreeType level.
MF> Then it is also a Qt/KDE bug. You cannot distinguish these fonts in
MF> the Qt/KDE font selection dialogs either.
MF> TrueType fonts don't have something like "FOUNDRY",
>> Yes, they do, in the OS/2 table. Keith is planning to modify
>> Fontconfig to properly export this value.
MF> But this alone doesn't help, it remains mostly useless until
MF> all of the GUI font selection dialogs support it.
Hmm. I think that fontconfig should provide both a foundry, a raw
family name, and a human-visible family name. The human-visible
family name is what should appear in font dialogs.
The raw family name should always be whatever appears in the font file
-- no magic, ever. The human-visible family name should be equal to
the concatenation of the foundry and the raw family name, except when
either the foundry name is ``misc'' or ``unknown'', or else when the
raw family name already starts or ends with the foundry name.
(Note: the ``starts or ends with'' algorithm will need to be smart
about variations such as ``Monotype Courier New'' vs. ``Courier New MT''.)
Is that okay with you? Do you believe it should be implemented at the
fontconfig level or at the FreeType level?
Juliusz
- [Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, (continued)
- [Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, Mike FABIAN, 2003/04/10
- [Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, Mike FABIAN, 2003/04/09
- [Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, Juliusz Chroboczek, 2003/04/09
- [Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, Keith Packard, 2003/04/09
Re: [Freetype] Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, David Turner, 2003/04/09
[Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, Juliusz Chroboczek, 2003/04/09
- [Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, Mike FABIAN, 2003/04/09
- Re: [Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, Torgeir Veimo, 2003/04/09
- [Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, Mike FABIAN, 2003/04/09
- Re: [Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, Juliusz Chroboczek, 2003/04/09
[Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2,
Juliusz Chroboczek <=
[Freetype] Re: Suggested patch: bitmap fonts, foundry, family and fontconfig/Xft2, Mike FABIAN, 2003/04/09