[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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