On 7/25/06, Behdad Esfahbod <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is the wrongest approach to solve this problem, and indeed what > Roozbeh has had in mind. In the case of Chinese fonts with no bold > variant, there are a lot of possibilities on Linux. First, with the > latest version of the text rendering stack, we should be emboldening for > you on the fly. Second, if you want to replace bold with italic, you > can do that with a fontconfig configuration file. There is a bug > against Pango to make artificial bold and italic faces even show in the > font selection widget. That way, there's really no excuse to not use > bold faces (unless you are dealing with a bitmap font of course).
As I replied in another subthread, that kind of approach is of course wrong, _right now_. Artificial emboldening is available for quite some time in freetype, and works for chinese (though distro only catch up around 1 yr ago). In the old days things are a bit different -- there is no artificial embolden in freetype, no fontconfig/xft, nothing. Abel > > > Of course in most cases the proper 'fix' is to have a boldtype > > font. But creating a boldface font is not always that easy, > > when one is talking about complex scripts that consists of > > at least hundreds or thousands of glyphs; and it needs quite > > some human horsepower as well, which may not be available for > > newly available languages in F/OSS world. > > > > Abel > > -- > behdad > http://behdad.org/ > > "Commandment Three says Do Not Kill, Amendment Two says Blood Will Spill" > -- Dan Bern, "New American Language" > > -- Abel Cheung (GPG Key: 0xC67186FF) Key fingerprint: 671C C7AE EFB5 110C D6D1 41EE 4152 E1F1 C671 86FF -------------------------------------------------------------------- * GNOME Hong Kong - http://www.gnome.hk/ * Opensource Application Knowledge Assoc. - http://oaka.org/ _______________________________________________ gnome-i18n mailing list gnome-i18n@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-i18n
