Re: [Texmacs-dev] Re: tt_font_find

[David Allouche]

On Mon, Jan 19, 2004 at 10:06:30AM +0100, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> The better way would probably be to use the fontconfig library:
> 
>       http://www.fontconfig.org
> 
> that library is designed to become standard for exactly the topic that is 
> being discussed here: determine which fonts are installed on the system.
> 
> fontconfig is independant of X, but the new Xft depends on it, so it should 
> be 
> reasonably standard that the additional dependency does not hurt too much.
> 
> I don't have the time for the coding, but anyone looking for *the* solution 
> should definitely consider this.

For reference, that was already mentioned on texmacs-users by the same
persons :-)

http://lists.texmacs.org/wws/arc/texmacs-users/2003-10/msg00061.html

Since texmacs seems to steering more towards using standard facilities
(using freetype was a big precedent), one can only hope that fontconfig
will be used in the future.

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