Thanks for the detailed info. I understand how it *may* be useful. My question was more about whether any system is using fontconfig in that way already? Cheers, behdad On 12/09/2009 02:16 PM, Mikhail Gusarov wrote: > > Twas brillig at 13:59:49 09.12.2009 UTC-05 when behdad@xxxxxxxxxx did gyre and gimble: > > >> No, it's not. It's the user-accessible part of device, like $HOME on > >> PC. Thanks to one OS the only sane choice FS for SD cards is FAT. > > BE> Still not convinced. > > Well, let me provide the specific use-case then. > > Dedicated e-book reader. Users want to use the fonts they posess (and > they do!) to read books. There is SD card slot, USB connection and no > network access (pretty typical setup for e-ink-based e-book readers). > > What are the options for installing fonts on such device? > > - SD card > - USB mass storage > > Anything else? No, nothing beyond it is supported by Windowoze > out-of-the-box. Sane filesystem on SD/USB mass storage? No, VFAT only [*] > > Is it possible to "install" fonts from SD somehow? Well, maybe. But then > there should be dedicated space on device. Ugly and inefficient, as > fonts may be quite huge, so there should be a lot of space reserved, so > better avoid it. > > Just dropping a couple of .ttf to ".fonts" directory on SD card is easy > to use and easy to explain. > > [*] Even Nokia in N900 went this way with their internal storage. As I > was told by one of engineers they researched the various options and > none was satisfactory. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
