2009/12/29 Qianqian Fang <fangq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > hi > > Fontconfig only provides a limited number of generic aliases. > I am experimenting simulating a "generic alias" using an > empty font and a set of fontconfig rules. > > Here is what I have done: I created an empty font using fontforge, > containing only a few invisible glyphs such as .notdef. The font > family name is set to "WenQuanYi Ray Song". I want to use > 3 fonts to synthesize this font: Dejavu Serif, WenQuanYi Bitmap Song > and AR PL UMing CN. I created a fontconfig file to combine > these fonts so that 1) when rendering glyphs in the range of 11px~16px, > Dejavu Serif will be used for non-CJK and WQY Bitmap Song will > be used for CJK; 2) out of that range, vector glyphs in AR PL > UMing CN will be selected for CJK. The font file and the config > are attached. > > I used the following command to test the rules, and it worked fine: > > pango-view --font='WenQuanYi Ray Song' --text='文泉驿锐宋 Ray Song' --waterfall > --dpi=32 > > However, I am seeing some wield stuff when I tried to set this > font in the system appearance dialog. Under en_US locale, when > I select "WenQuanYi Ray Song" from the gtk font selection dialog > and click "regular" and "OK", "DejaVu Serif Book" will be shown > as the font name instead. Because the font name is changed, > the previous defined rules for Ray Song is no longer used. > > When I select this font under Chinese locale, the first available > font style is not "Regular" anymore, it became the traditional > Chinese family name of this font! (see attachment 3) Selecting > it will also fall back to "DejaVu Serif Book". > > Finally, if you select the italic/bold/italicbold style, gtk font > dialog is able to use "WenQuanYi Ray Song" as the font name. > > I am not sure which went wrong. The wrong font style may linked > to fontconfig, while the font name changing may be related to > gtk. > > Anyone want to comment on this? do you see a possible bug from > these tests? > > Qianqian > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Fontconfig mailing list > Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig > > I think having a synthetic fonts or faces to have embedded bitmap and vector fonts separate would be quite useful and free people from doing .fonts.conf stuff a little. _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
