[PATCH libXfont] Add a new 'catalogue' FPE, which takes font paths from symlinks in a dir.

[Ademar de Souza Reis Jr.]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:30:17PM -0400, Eamon Walsh wrote:
>  Kristian Høgsberg wrote:
> > Oh, and if nobody objects or suggests improvements within the next
> > couple of days, I'll commit it an cut a libXfont release.  There,
> > you've been warned.
> 
>  From another mail:
> 
>  > +    75dpi:unscaled:pri=20 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
>  > +    ghostscript:pri=60 \-> /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
>  > +    misc:unscaled:pri=10 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc
>  > +    type1:pri=40 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1
>  > +    type1:pri=50 \-> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1
> 
> 
>  What is the point of putting the font name (fixed, 75dpi, whatever) in the 
>  symlink name.  It's evident from the symlink destination.
> 
>  If unscaled is the only option, why not simplify the symlink name to 
>  <priority>[unscaled], i.e.
> 
>  20unscaled \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/75dpi
>  60 \-> /usr/share/fonts/default/ghostscript
>  10unscaled \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/misc
>  40 \-> /usr/share/X11/fonts/Type1
>  50 \-> /usr/share/fonts/default/Type1

You may have different font-paths with the same priority, since
it's impossible to create some sort of 'namespace' for all
font-packages available (specially the third-party ones).

Regards,
  - Ademar

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Ademar de Souza Reis Jr.
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