Re: fontconfig, alias/pseudo-fonts, Xft

[Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Mike FABIAN wrote:

> Jungshik Shin <jshin@xxxxxxxxxxx> さんは書きました:
>
> >>I always got exactly one font. Are you saying that it is possible to use
> >>more than one font with a single call to XftFontOpenPattern()
> >>by doing some setup in ~/.fonts.conf?

> > I think Pablo mistook what fontconfig does for what Xft does unless
> > I'm missing something Pablo knows. I also plead guilty of making
> > a similar mistake when I wrote abuot working-around a hard-coded
> > font name in a Window manager and a theme (e.g. Courier)
>
> Yes, that was the reason why Pablo's mail did arouse my interest.  I
> sounded like there is some way to make simple-minded applications
> (which don't use sophisticated libraries like Pango) more or less work
> with little changes in the code.
>
> Many window managers are like that. The best solution I currently
> know is to use the generic aliases "sans-serif", "serif", and
> "monspaced" instead of real font names like "Courier", etc...

Would specifying "Courier,Kochi Gothic,Gulim,....." work?
Well, I should test it.


> In your above example from fonts.conf, "Luxi Mono" will be used in
> case of German and "Kochi Gothic" will be used in case of Japanese.
> But there is no easy way to display both German Umlauts *and* Japanese
> at the same time without using a single font which contains both
> Japanese and German Umlauts and inserting that on top of the <prefer>
> list.

  How about this? A friend of mine sent me the following.
He uses this because he doesn't want rather ugly glyphs for
Latin letters in 'Gulim' (Korean font). With this set up,
he gets Latin letters rendered in Courier and Korean
characters in Gulim.

-----
    <match target="pattern">
        <test name="family"><string>Gulim</string></test>
        <edit name="family" mode="prepend" binding="same">
            <string>Courier</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
------

It seems like this is only supported in a relatively new version of
fontconfig because my fontconfig (obtained from XF86 CVS in early
March?) doesn't seem to support it. His fontconfig was obtained afresh
(as of his email, which was about 10 days ago) from fontconfig.org CVS.

It looks like the above can be extended to make simple-minded applications
use multiple fonts, doesn't it?

---------------
    <match target="pattern">
        <test name="family"><string>Courier</string></test>
        <edit name="family" mode="append" binding="same">
            <string>Font1, Font2, Font3,....</string>
        </edit>
    </match>
-------

Perhaps, this has the same effect (but global instead of
local to applications) as specifying 'Courier, Font1, Font2,
Font3,....' for simple-minded window manager.

Jungshik

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