On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 09:25:32PM -0500, cga wrote: > Ambrose Li wrote: > > >I share the same feelings. It took me *days* > > > you must've cheated.. like working full-time.. round-the clock.. or > something.. Yes, I cheated, sort of. Someone helped me out of my puzzlement on an IRC channel; if I had not been helped (by telling me my fontconfig installation is broken, so to say), I would have spent considerably more time figuring out what went wrong. And I worked round-the-clock too, sort of. > It's already taken me *weeks* and I'm far from done.. :-) I'm still wondering how to properly make fontconfig do the right thing w.r.t. Chinese fonts, esp. "sans serif" fonts, or mixing fonts from different scripts. It seems that it likes to either use a "kai" font (which really is italic roman, not sans serif, according to Western typography rules) or a Japanese/Korean font for sans serif. I currently hard-code font names into .gtkrc-2.0, which works, but doesn't do the right thing when I have a bunch of stuff together that is a mix of simplified Chinese, traditional Chinese, and Japanese (say). How to combine Chinese + English fonts is also still a mystery to me (in that I have figured out how to do it but cannot understand why it has to be done that way...) So I guess I'm also "far from done", only that I have already given up, since it's good enough for everyday use :-) Best regards, -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing <a.c.li@xxxxxxxx> http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/
