On Wednesday 06 November 2002 16:00, Mike A. Harris wrote: > 2-3 years without documentation, and one person asking for it > isn't too bad. I guess if it was hard to write, it should be > hard to use too. This is probably as good a mailing list to ask these questions as any and maybe even more appropriate. We haven't needed to ask about documentation very much because we did not need to with our 15 year old font system. However, this is not changing with Xft and fontconfig. Until the Red Hat manuals can be updated (code before documentation), I believe a bit more info is needed. Mike, the explanation of the font situation (on the psyche mailing list) is very good. However, I believe that there are a few questions to clarify things: 1. I did not know that the ttmkfdir program even existed until I examined the --scripts for the XFree87-truetype-fonts package. I had previously build fonts.scale files by hand for truetype fonts I installed. The ttmkfdir and mkfontscale programs produce different lists given the same set of .ttf files. Which is more "correct". 2. When you use ttmkfdir -m 100 you get a lot more fonts since some some of the strange fonts do not have a full character set. Is this a good idea? When mkfontscale is "ready" to replace ttmkfdir, what will be done about this capability or will all be listed even those that are a bit sparse? 3. I can easily tell what fc-list does and how to use it but how about fc-cache? In the 8.0 RELEASE-NOTES, there is a brief description of installing some fonts into ~/.fonts and then running fc-cache <directory> but it does not say anything else. When do we need to run fc-cache. I see that ~/.fonts-cache-1 is automatically created when a new user logs in or when ~/.fonts-cache-1 has been deleted. I assume that ~/.fonts-cache-1 is a "directory" to available fonts. Is this correct because I do not see this documented anywhere. However, if it exist, it is not recreated for every login. While the RELEASE-NOTES says to run fc-cache when you update ~/.fonts, what happens when a new package of fonts is installed? 4. Does the new Xft/fontconfig still require the running ttmkfdir and mkfontdir? No mention is made of them by the procedure in RELEASE-NOTES. I must say that you are making the new font capability (as well as the old xfs one) be as correctly configured as possible without the intervension of a user. This is very good! -- -- Gene _______________________________________________ xfree86-list mailing list xfree86-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/xfree86-list IRC: #xfree86 on irc.redhat.com
