On Sun, 2012-10-21 at 09:58 -1000, Roger Davis wrote: > when I > downsize my font display to smaller sizes (anything 16 or below), the font > weight appears to make a dramatic shift from Book to ExtraLight.
By default I believe the mac changes antialiasing and hinting strategies (is this 16pt or 16px?) > Second, at some point during my fiddling around this morning, the > following files magically appeared in /opt/X11/share/fonts/TTF: > > % ls -l fo* > 120 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 57364 Oct 21 06:52 fonts.dir > 8 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 1962 Oct 21 06:51 fonts.list > 120 -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 57364 Oct 21 06:51 fonts.scale mkfontscale does this (and/or mkfontdir) The files are being ignored in practice by gtk. They are for legacy applications that still use X-native font machinery, and are read by the X server and by the X font server, if it's in use. It shouldn't be. > Finally, I did some experimenting with removing ttf files from > /opt/X11/share/fonts/TTF. I found that if I got rid of the Vera*ttf files, > then this happened: > % fc-match yuk-yuk > Vera.ttf: "Bitstream Vera Sans" "Roman" Yes, there's a fallback defined in one of he fonts.conf files. > I suppose what I would like to do on my Mac is have it use DejaVu Sans to > satisfy a Sans request (because DejaVu has the UTF-8 characters I need and > Vera does not) The pango renderer will try to substitute glyphs from other fonts as needed, so this shouldn't be a problem. It's possible that some other gtk+ back end doesn't do this. You can edit the fonts.conf files to change the default font. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml _______________________________________________ gtk-app-devel-list mailing list gtk-app-devel-list@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gtk-app-devel-list
