On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 14:11 +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > Hi, > > Here is the solution I've arrived for Fedora Extras DejaVu packaging : > - making DejaVu the fontconfig default > - optionally substituting other fonts for Arabic or Farsi, for people > unsatisfied with DejaVu current Arabic block > > I'm far from sure this is the right solution or a simpler one is not > possible, but unless a fontconfig guru will point me to a better > solution this is the one which will ship in FE next week (and possibly > later in FC6). I've gone as far as I could alone. Well, you've been told the right solution repeatedly ... not shipping on omnibus multi-script font. What you've attached here looks incredibly fragile and confusing to users. I'm not enough of a fontconfig expert to predict exactly what will happen from all this configuration, but I think it's pretty poor if, say, someone running in a Persian locale doesn't *get* DejaVu if they select it explicitly. (As opposed to selecting sans-serif) As long as the fonts people really want to use for their locales don't include Latin characters, they can usually get around a multi-block font by just specifying DejaVu after the desired font. But if the desired fonts do have (frequently poor) Latin characters, then the user has nothing to do. This is leaving aside the worse problems that you are creating with metrics. Owen (I'll shut up on this topic now.) _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
