[PATCH libXfont] Add a new 'catalogue' FPE, which takes font paths from symlinks in a dir.
Ademar de Souza Reis Jr.
ademar at mandriva.com.br
Thu Jun 21 06:31:42 PDT 2007
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:30:17PM -0400, Eamon Walsh wrote:
> 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
You may have different font-paths with the same priority, since
it's impossible to create some sort of 'namespace' for all
font-packages available (specially the third-party ones).
Regards,
- Ademar
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Mandriva - http://www.mandriva.com.br
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