Re: System fonts

[Kazunobu Kuriyama]

Yen-Ju Chen wrote:

>> From: Kazunobu Kuriyama <kazunobu.kuriyama@nifty.com>
>> To: Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx@hotmail.com>
>> CC: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
>> Subject: Re: System fonts
>> Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2004 01:52:58 +0900
>>
>> Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
>> >
>> >
>> > Ask user to install freetype and fontconfig and use back-xlib.
>> > Have encoding and locale correctly set.
>> > Use font panel in Ink.app to check the available fonts and specify
>> > them in GNUstep defaults.
>> > That's it. Very simple.
>>
>> I think the first stuff finds its right place in a general instruction
>> manual
>> for installing the GNUstep packages, say GNUstep-HOWTO. So LanguageSetup
>> doesn't necessarily need the stuff. Your thoughts?
>>
>
> The reason I mention freetype and fontconfig is because back-xlib has
> several implementations.
> The oldest one only supports latin character (XDrawString)
> A newer one use XFontStruct to display multibytes character
> (Xutf8DrawString)
> And there is one which use Xft (freetype) and/or fontconfig to draw
> character (XftDrawString16).
> I didn't look into the details of each implementation.
> The first and second one use the Xwindows functions,
> and the third one requires third-party libraries.
> And there are two defaults: GSFontAntiAlias and GSXEnableFontSet.
> So there is four possibilities:
> AntiAlias: NO, FontSet: NO => XDrawString()
> AntiAlias: NO, FontSet: YES => Xutf8DrawString()
> AntiAlias: YES, FontSet: NO => XftDrawString16(), create font cache if
> fontconfig doesn't exist
> AntiAlias: YES, FontSet: YES => unknown
>
> I think normal user will be very confused why their fonts doesn't work
> or show up in font panel
> because of the defaults and installed libraries.
> Maybe we should at least remind them the freetype and fontconfig is
> required in the document. 

But in your previous comment you said, "Ask user to install freetype and
fontconfig and use back-xlib. " So I though you wanted LanguageSetup to
have some instructions on installation...

I absolutely agree to you if you want it to have some instructions on
the _usage_
of the fontconfig stuff. Does this resolve the misunderstanding between us?

Regards,
- Kazunobu Kuriyama