On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 06:29:40PM +0330, Roozbeh Pournader wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 09:09, Keith Packard wrote: > > The local.conf file included in fontconfig 2.2.99 has a <selectfont> > > element which disables all bitmap fonts. > > > > Is this a good idea for a default? > > I believe it is. Bitmap fonts are considered very bad for any "complex" > scripts, and since fontconfig doesn't handle the cases of fonts that > claim to support complex scripts but don't have the required additional > tables yet, ignoring the bitmap fonts (which are the majority of such > fonts) by default could be considered a workaround until the bug is > fixed/the feature is implemented. On the other hand I think it's very important to also explain how to enable bitmapped fonts.
