On Sun, 2006-09-03 at 13:09 -0400, James Cloos wrote: > >>>>> "Keith" == Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > Keith> Prefer Bitstream Vera to DejaVu families. > > Given that the glyphs that exist in Vera all exist and are hinted in > Deja, isn't this only going to result in opening both files if glyphs > not in Vera are required, instead of only opening Deja? The main effect is to select Vera for the serif oblique face. Doing the obliquing in fontconfig preserves most of the value from the hints, making this a better looking face. > (This isn't a rhetorical question; I could be relying on a bad > assumption, such as how often fallbacks are used. And I presume it > would make more difference if there were other familied between Vera > and Deja in the lists....) Unfortunately, TrueType fonts are effectively required to provide Latin glyphs, which leaves many of the non-Latin faces including truely objectionable Latin glyphs. So, to allow DejaVu to be used for Latin glyphs, it must be placed before all non-Latin faces. With the ability to ban glyphs and edit language support, we can rethink this whole issue. Also, I would like to see the DejaVu developers split their font across writing system boundaries so we can correctly arrange them with relation to other fonts. Right now, when you select DejaVu for Latin, you're forced to live with DejaVu for everything else. Ick. It's almost as if people haven't learned the lesson of ArialUnicode yet. -- keith.packard@xxxxxxxxx
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