So there is a change of strategy over at FreeType.
Someone thought my attempt to leave all the font rendering configuration
to fontconfig is misguided and pointed out that hintslight commonly
translates to FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT, which implies what I want to achieve
with hintfull for .otfs. So FreeType master changed the meaning of
FT_LOAD_TARGET_LIGHT to "Use native Y-only-snapping if driver and font
supports it and Y-only autohinter otherwise". This encompasses future
additions to the LIGHT mode, e.g. once ClearType is fully supported.
This makes my per-font-format-configuration obsolete to me because this
way is much more elegant. You can ignore my posted .confs.
What still stands is my wish to set hintslight as the global default. I
saw that Ubuntu ships with several additional confs, I attached the
patches from the Ubuntu package. How about upstreaming this? They use
10-antialias.conf, 10-hinting.conf and 10-hinting-slight.conf by default.
>From 5a85212b8d6ae4c01edd5ec417bf29413e7ba33a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Nikolaus Waxweiler <madigens@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2015 15:22:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add slight hinting config from Ubuntu and make it the
default.
---
conf.d/10-antialias.conf | 8 ++++++++
conf.d/10-hinting-full.conf | 8 ++++++++
conf.d/10-hinting-medium.conf | 8 ++++++++
conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf | 8 ++++++++
conf.d/10-hinting.conf | 8 ++++++++
conf.d/Makefile.am | 8 ++++++++
6 files changed, 48 insertions(+)
create mode 100644 conf.d/10-antialias.conf
create mode 100644 conf.d/10-hinting-full.conf
create mode 100644 conf.d/10-hinting-medium.conf
create mode 100644 conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf
create mode 100644 conf.d/10-hinting.conf
diff --git a/conf.d/10-antialias.conf b/conf.d/10-antialias.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..62d6407
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf.d/10-antialias.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<fontconfig>
+<!-- Use the Antialiasing -->
+ <match target="font">
+ <edit name="antialias" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
+ </match>
+</fontconfig>
diff --git a/conf.d/10-hinting-full.conf b/conf.d/10-hinting-full.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..e052031
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf.d/10-hinting-full.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<fontconfig>
+<!-- Use Full Hinting -->
+ <match target="font">
+ <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintfull</const></edit>
+ </match>
+</fontconfig>
diff --git a/conf.d/10-hinting-medium.conf b/conf.d/10-hinting-medium.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3ae3546
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf.d/10-hinting-medium.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<fontconfig>
+<!-- Use Medium Hinting -->
+ <match target="font">
+ <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintmedium</const></edit>
+ </match>
+</fontconfig>
diff --git a/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf b/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2073d96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf.d/10-hinting-slight.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<fontconfig>
+<!-- Use Slight Hinting -->
+ <match target="font">
+ <edit name="hintstyle" mode="assign"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
+ </match>
+</fontconfig>
diff --git a/conf.d/10-hinting.conf b/conf.d/10-hinting.conf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..2d320b2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/conf.d/10-hinting.conf
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<fontconfig>
+<!-- Use Hinting -->
+ <match target="font">
+ <edit name="hinting" mode="assign"><bool>true</bool></edit>
+ </match>
+</fontconfig>
diff --git a/conf.d/Makefile.am b/conf.d/Makefile.am
index d61756b..cb2fe43 100644
--- a/conf.d/Makefile.am
+++ b/conf.d/Makefile.am
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ DOC_SOURCES = README.in
DOC_FILES = $(DOC_SOURCES:.in=)
CONF_LINKS = \
+ 10-antialias.conf \
+ 10-hinting.conf \
+ 10-hinting-slight.conf \
10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf \
20-unhint-small-vera.conf \
30-urw-aliases.conf \
@@ -50,7 +53,12 @@ config_DATA = $(DOC_FILES)
templatedir = $(TEMPLATEDIR)
template_DATA = \
+ 10-antialias.conf \
10-autohint.conf \
+ 10-hinting.conf \
+ 10-hinting-full.conf \
+ 10-hinting-medium.conf \
+ 10-hinting-slight.conf \
10-no-sub-pixel.conf \
10-scale-bitmap-fonts.conf \
10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf \
--
2.5.0
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