On Tue, 2015-02-10 at 11:00 -0800, Adam Williamson wrote: > It changes the width. The key thing about a fixed-width font > is...it's fixed width. If someone's using one, they almost > certainly don't want an artificial bold face that uses wider > characters. This is a major pain when using a text editor that uses > bold face for syntax highlighting, and affects two widely- used > monospace fonts which have no native bold face, Droid > Sans Mono and Inconsolata. I'll note that back in 2012, infinality claimed that his patchset somehow did artificial emboldening without widening the glyphs: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2012-January/003731.html but good lord, I have no idea where to start digging in that mess to try and figure out how he did it. Implementing some kind of artificial bold for freetype that doesn't change character widths would be an obvious alternative to this if someone wanted to do it. -- Adam Williamson Fedora QA Community Monkey IRC: adamw | Twitter: AdamW_Fedora | XMPP: adamw AT happyassassin . net http://www.happyassassin.net _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
