On 8/2/07, Isaiah Beerbower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 8/2/07, Yen-Ju Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/1/07, Isaiah Beerbower <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I'm now going to drop Mac OS X support for Font Manager. While I'm > > > going to keep Font Manager compiling on Mac OS X, it isn't going to > > > manage fonts for OS X. I'm going to start using fontconfig for > > > disabling & adding fonts, and, while OS X has API's to get the same > > > task done, I'd rather not have to create one more back end for Font > > > Manager. I will however keep it possible to add such a thing in future > > > > I just want to mention that fontconfig is only used by cairo backend, > > not art backend. > > I'm going to use fontconfig to get information about fonts regardless > of which back end is used. The art back end doesn't provide enough > information by its self. > > > So regular GNUstep users will not notice the difference. > > But I am all for cairo backend for the future. > > I haven't been able to get that running yet ... > > > If you have copyright assigned to FSF, > > you can also improve cairo backend to > > make it play nicer with extermal font manager. > > Yes. Is the cairo back end anywhere near being ready for use? The art > back end is very primitive when it comes to font management, and I'd > rather not have to bother with it ... (here sits a lazy programmer > ...) > > > I think it would make your work easier, > > for example, notifing all GNUstep application > > when users disable font in FontManager.app. > > > > Another thing I really like is to have a fallback font mechanism. > > (I think NSFontManager has a -preferredFonts: for that). > > So if current font miss some glyphs, it will use the next font to > > display that glyphs. > > But it may be too much to ask. :) > > I *might* look in to that ... :)
Would you like to have some glyph inspector for font manager ? I was thinking about such application for a while. It is quite useful in many cases, for example, look up the code of a glyph for HTML. This one is in Cocoa under BSD license: http://pixel.recoil.org/cocoa/index.html I haven't really look at the code yet. There are a few carbon stuff and some uses of NSDrawer. There is also a small character panel in Typewriter which shows all glyphs from specified font and allow users to copy and paste from it. I don't know how these three things should integrate with each other or not. If you have no interest in such function in Font Manager, I may just port it as a stand-alone application. Yen-Ju > > > Isaiah Beerbower > > -- > View my website at www.ipaqah.com. > > "Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable." -- Mark Twain > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss > _______________________________________________ Etoile-discuss mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-discuss
