Kaixo! On Sat, Sep 29, 2001 at 10:28:17AM -0700, Keith Packard wrote: > I'm considering whether font merging would be useful in Xft. Once I've
Yes it will. > What do other people think? Should Xft do simplistic merging? Obviously, > there would be a way to disable this as well. I think merging should always be done for the three special font names "sans", "serif" and "mono" (maybe also aliased as "fixed", as it seems to be a commonly used default name currently), maybe also other defaults for other styles (like "cursive" for example). I'm not an especialist, but the panose info gives some hints about the main style family of a given font; so it will be very nice if Xft could make pseudo-fonts like "sans" "serif" etc to cover all the different styles available, with font merging; and that be done automatically. Then there would be, for each main style, at least one "font" with the maximum possible character coverage. Then, programs could use them, for example Mozilla wouldn't need to keep an internal (and always wrong and incomplete by nature, as Mozilla programers have no way to know what fonts are on Joe's computer) database, but instead ressort to standardized default names. If it would also be possible for users (or sys admin) to have the choice to merge those default pseudo fonts with real fonts (of the same style), that is, all fonts will always have the maximum coverage, the face name will only say which real font to get the glyphs to, each time it is possible; then it would be the nearest to perfection for me. PS: note that if such a system would exist now it would have been quite easy to solve a lot of "euro" problems; just adding a few fonts including to the system and that symbol would have been available everywhere. I just received a magazine I'm subscribed at a week ago, and in page 2 there is a small text telling of to subscribe and the price, exprimed in the new mon,etary unit of "blank square"... So, merging would always be beneficial; it would never be worst than the current situation, as the only cases where the output of font merging can be unpleasant is when currently there are blank squares as output; that is an even worst output! -- Ki ça vos våye bén, Pablo Saratxaga http://www.srtxg.easynet.be/ PGP Key available, key ID: 0x8F0E4975 _______________________________________________ I18n mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/i18n
