imm wrote: > > On 1 Feb 2008, at 15:52, Lazy Fox wrote: > >> I want to know which font should be used in fltk application >> if Ｉuse "--enable-xft"? >> How can I find it from my Fedora Core 5? > > There's no one font that will be "right" for all uses. I don't know what > font sets you have installed on your system, or what languages you want > to display. > For example, if you want to display text that does not use glyphs from > the LGC ranges, it is probably best to pick a font tailored to that > language group. But if you then do need to display some LGC characters > as well, your font may not have them. (Although many of the fonts in the > CJK families do have quite good LGC coverage too, if that is what you > are using.) For example, some of the Arabic and Devangari fonts I've > used have quite poor coverage of the Latin character space... > > To make that work, you usually need to specify a different font, > depending on what characters you want to display in each widget. > Remember that you can have multiple fonts in use in different widgets > (e.g. by using the labelfont(...) or textfont(...) methods), so that > works OK. > > The easiest solution might be to try the utf8 demo from the test folder > of my fltk118 tarball, and use that to look at each of the fonts you > have installed, until you find one that has the glyphs you need for your > languages, in a style that you like! > > If you find that you do not have a font that meets your needs, I suggest > you try going to: > > http://www.unifont.org/fontguide/ > > There you will find much information on fonts, and also a tool > "DownloadFonts.sh" that can get many different fonts for many different > languages. Hopefully one of those will meet your needs.
Thanks. It looks like I have a lot of things that about Unicode and fonts to learn. I'm in china, and we'll have a vacation of Chinese New Year. After the vacation I'll try some fonts. Thanks again. _______________________________________________ fltk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.easysw.com/mailman/listinfo/fltk
