- From: David Allouche <address@hidden>
- To: address@hidden
- Subject: Re: [TeXmacs] Addtional remark: Fontconfig (was: Type 3 fonts)
- Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 00:38:33 +0200
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 11:29:22AM +0200, Norbert Nemec wrote:
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Am Donnerstag, 23. Oktober 2003 11:15 schrieb Martin Costabel:
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> On mercredi, oct 22, 2003, at 17:09 Europe/Paris, Norbert Nemec wrote:
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> > Hi there,
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> > just found out about http://fontconfig.org - the portable solution for
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> > Linux
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> > systems. Of course - like any real solution - quite complex...
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> I must have overlooked something in this discussion, but I didn' see
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> anyone mentioning that both freetype2 and fontconfig come with xfree86.
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> I don't know what the linux distributions do about this, but at least
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> freetype2 has been part of the xfree86 sources for at least a year
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> since 4.2.0, and fontconfig comes with xfree86-4.3.0 (and on MacOSX
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> with Apple's latest X11 which is xfree86-4.3.0).
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In any case: It is nice to know that xfree86 uses freetype and fontconfig,
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but
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the independent libraries should be used for TeXmacs.
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fontconfig of course cannot be as portable as freetype, but it should cover
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any system running X11, so we only have to worry about Windows and MacOS X.
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That would make three different font configuration backends which should be
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manageable.
fontconfig definitely is the modern font access tool for GNU systems. It
is also used by KDE3 and GNOME2.
Windows and MacOS most probably have their own homegrown system.
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