> The API you were using uses a single font; there isn't (yet?) an API > within Xft to switch among multiple fonts. I expected applications to > want to group glyphs in the same font, but so far that hasn't happened. I > may figure out a reasonable interface now. > > For multiple font use (which all applications should use), you use > FcFontSort to compute the list of fonts needed to display as much Unicode > as you've got fonts for. The list includes Unicode coverage for each font, > so you can just walk the list looking for the first font supporting each > character. > > There's a bit more to it; you'll find examples in Mozilla, Qt and Pango at > this point. I'd like help defining an appropriate Xft API for this > operation; it may be as simple as extending an XftFont to support > additional fonts or perhaps it should just use new APIs. I don't know > what's best. Thanks for this information. I will refer to the corresponding implemention in Pango, using low-level FcFontSort is too complicated at least for me. Regards, Federic
