[Openfontlibrary] looking for corefonts replacements, how to
replace?, and site search
Jon Phillips
jon at rejon.org
Fri Apr 13 14:30:05 PDT 2007
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 18:56 +0200, Nicolas Spalinger wrote:
> [...]
>
> >> 3) Does your wiki contain instructions on how to map replacements with
> >> fontconfig and maybe other applications? If not, can anyone share
> >> examples?
> >
> > No, it doesn't contain this information. I've never tried this,
> > although I think its possible. Please post your solution on the list
> > when you arrive at it! :-)
>
>
> One quick example:
>
> <alias>
> <family>SomeFont</family>
>
> <prefer>
> <family>SomeOpenFont</family>
> </prefer>
> </alias>
>
> You probably want to look at existing fontconfig snippets in fontconfig
> upstream for inspiration:
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=fontconfig;a=tree;h=683d8c70cb930923e825f6338ef9233dd3103c47
>
> and the fontconfig user docs:
> http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html
>
>
> One of the things worth doing at the LGM2 in Montréal is expanding the
> fontconfig snippets to mention the open fonts we know about and then
> posting them to fontconfig upstream.
Yes, I agree...we should throw up on a wiki about a bof for OFLB...Dave
and Nicholas, might you spearhead this on the Create wiki where the
conference planning is taking place: http://create.freedesktop.org/wiki
thx
Jon
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