Hello Markus, On Tue, 24 Jul 2007, Markus Neteler wrote:
d.font -l prints out 190 fonts on my system (happy me) but they aren't sorted.
The list *is* sorted (see function compare_fonts() in general/g.mkfontcap/main.c), first by type (stroke font or freetype-compatible), and then by name. But it sorts case-insensitively on the long descriptive name (I thought this would be most logical for human-readable viewing), not on the short name. Unfortunately we haven't yet added the capability to d.font to also view the more descriptive name - Glynn mentioned that adding a d.font -L flag (capital L rather than lower-case l) might be a good idea for that. It isn't entirely simple though, but just needs some work. Do you think that would be enough? Or should we change the search to sort on the short name - case-insensitively perhaps? You could try that if you want and see if it gives you good results on your system - just change the two references to "longname" in that function to "name".
I'm not sure how much info the d.font -L flag should produce though - just the short name and long name, or the path to the file, index within the file etc.?
And funnily enough, just today I've been working on some tidying and improvements to the fontcap generation stuff. Main points being: 1) Add a text file to the lib/fonts/fonts directory to be installed into $GISBASE/etc/fonts, to identify a descriptive long name with each stroke font (actually copied from d.font man page) 2) Removed the capability from g.mkfontcap to generate an old-style freetypecap file, to simplify and reduce confusion 3) Adjusted "make install" to adjust the path to the stroke fonts in the fontcap file, when GRASS is installed to a different location on the local system 4) Adjusted the binary install script binaryInstall.src to run g.mkfontcap during the install process, to find all the fonts on the local system.
After some more local testing I should hopefully get these changes committed tomorrow. They don't affect the sorting of the d.font output though.
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