Re: System fonts

[Yen-Ju Chen]

> From: Kazunobu Kuriyama <kazunobu.kuriyama@nifty.com>
> To: Yen-Ju Chen <yjchenx@hotmail.com>
> CC: discuss-gnustep@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: System fonts
> Date: Fri, 27 Aug 2004 18:28:46 +0900
>
> Yen-Ju Chen wrote:
 [snip]
> > In other word, only one font is used to display everything.
> > Does font substitute work for you ?
>
> What a shame! It seems to me that back-xlib was implemented by someone who
> might be ignorant of what fontconfig is for.

 I think it's because GNUstep has its own defaults (NSFont, NSBoldFont).
 So back-xlib does not really use fontconfig (fonts.conf) to do font 
substitute.
 By the way, can fontconfig really do the font substitute ?
 If so, it is a good way to use it to implement the font substitue.

 [snip]
> >
> > Maybe we should write a document in the LanguageSetup.gsdoc about
> > using back-xlib.
>
> Could you tell me it more specifically? What's your idea on that?

 Just add a new session in LanguageSetup.gsdoc, which now only contains 
back-art.
(http://www.gnustep.org/resources/documentation/User/Gui/LanguageSetup.html)

 Ask user to install freetype and fontconfig and use back-xlib.
 Have encoding and locale correctly set.
 Use font panel in Ink.app to check the available fonts and specify them in 
GNUstep defaults.
 That's it. Very simple.

 Yen-Ju

> Regards,
> - Kazunobu Kuriyama

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