Thanks Lawrence.
On Wed, Sep 27, 2017 at 7:07 PM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 27 Sep 2017 18:58:41 -0400, Behdad Esfahbod wrote:
> - Expose slant & italic standard axes as well, but Fontconfig
> shoves FC_SLANT_ITALIC and FC_SLANT_OBLIQUE in the same element,
> with these values:
>
> #define FC_SLANT_ROMAN 0
> #define FC_SLANT_ITALIC 100
> #define FC_SLANT_OBLIQUE 110
>
> The varfonts axis for italic has a 0..1 range, 1 meaning italic.
> And the slant axis uses slant angle. We can:
>
> - Deprecate FC_SLANT element and add two new ones, eg FC_ITALIC
> and FC_SLANT_ANGLE. I don't like this particularly,
>
> - Repurpose FC_SLANT for *italic*, since the 0..1 range maps
> nicely to FC_SLANT_ITALIC=100, and add FC_SLANT_ANGLE for the
> slant. I don't particularly like to confusing names here either.
> So I'm open to suggestions.
Do you want alternative noun forms? How about “italicity” and
“obliquity”? Or even “lean”?
There’s also the technical terms for the linear transformation:
“skew” or “shear”.
I didn't tackle that aspect yet. "skew" or "shear" won't work, as the axis value is written as oblique angle in degrees. I would have liked it to be shear as well.
I think we should add FC_ITALIC and FC_SLANT_ANGLE and populate them. That part I can do now; that's easy. Modifications to 90-synthetic.conf is going to be a lot more complicated. Likewise, re FcDefaultSubstitute() changes.
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