[PATCH libXfont] Add a new 'catalogue' FPE, which takes font paths from symlinks in a dir.

Eamon Walsh efw at eamonwalsh.com
Wed Jun 20 17:30:17 PDT 2007


Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> Oh, and if nobody objects or suggests improvements within the next
> couple of days, I'll commit it an cut a libXfont release.  There,
> you've been warned.

 From another mail:

 > +    75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
 > +    ghostscript:pri=60 \-> /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
 > +    misc:unscaled:pri=10 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc
 > +    type1:pri=40 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1
 > +    type1:pri=50 \-> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1


What is the point of putting the font name (fixed, 75dpi, whatever) in 
the symlink name.  It's evident from the symlink destination.

If unscaled is the only option, why not simplify the symlink name to 
<priority>[unscaled], i.e.

20unscaled \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
60 \-> /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
10unscaled \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc
40 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1
50 \-> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1

This would clean things up a lot.

--Eamon W.



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