> > I have tried that and it seems to work fine for my CJK fonts that don't > > have bold face. Changes need to be made to Freetype, Xft and Fontconfig. > > Patch for the CVS version of Fontconfig (2.2.96?) is attached. > > That's great; thanks for giving this a try. It seems like getting this > built into FreeType by default will be the most difficult part of the > problem, but getting Fontconfig and Xft support ready for that seems like > a reasonable plan. > > As to your specific fontconfig patch, the only necessary parts are the > configuration file changes and the addition of the FC_EMBOLDEN constant to > fontconfig.h. All of the code changes are not needed as fontconfig will > happily pass through the uninterpreted parts of the pattern to the font > rasterizer. > > You'll note that FC_MATRIX, which is used for slanting fonts, is given no > special handling in the code, aside from an entry in fcname.c (which > FC_EMBOLDEN should get). Do I need to do something more to get part of the patch included? Can you accept just the relevant part of the patch? Br, --jakub
