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diff man/internals/internals.texi @ 3685:382b11fa8866
[xemacs-hg @ 2006-11-17 02:50:22 by stephent]
Fix breakage in xftFont resource for tabs and menubar.
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author | stephent |
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date | Fri, 17 Nov 2006 02:50:32 +0000 |
parents | d08f0a2c8722 |
children | 5f25b1501bcd |
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--- a/man/internals/internals.texi Thu Nov 16 22:51:09 2006 +0000 +++ b/man/internals/internals.texi Fri Nov 17 02:50:32 2006 +0000 @@ -27629,12 +27629,16 @@ @item fontconfig Fontconfig is dramatically different from the X model in several ways. -In particular, @emph{fontconfig always returns a font}. However, the +In particular, for the convenient interface @emph{fontconfig always +returns a font}. However, the font returned need not be anything like the desired font. This means that XEmacs must adopt a strategy of delegating the search to fontconfig, then sanity-checking the return, rather than trying to use the fontconfig API to search using techniques appropriate for the X11 -core font API. +core font API. (This isn't actually true. fontconfig has more complex +interfaces which allow listing a subset of fonts that match a pattern, +and don't go out of their may to return something no matter what. But +the original patches didn't use this approach.) @item Font menus The @samp{Options->Font} and @samp{Options->Font Sizes} menus are @@ -27647,17 +27651,20 @@ disabled, and has been for eons. @item X resources -Currently in Stephen's patch there are @emph{four} treatments of font +Currently in Stephen's patch there are @emph{five} treatments of font resources. There are the @samp{XEmacs.@var{face}.attributeFont} resources used to set a single global font specification. In the widgets, some (still) have a @samp{font} resource using the automatic @file{Xt} resource conversion to @samp{FontStruct}, some have separate -@samp{font} and @samp{xftFont} resources with the former automatically +@samp{font} and @samp{fcFontName} resources with the former automatically converted to @samp{FontStruct} by @file{Xt} and the latter left as a -string, to be converted by @samp{XftParseName} later, and some have a +string, to be converted by @samp{FcParseName} later, and some have a single @samp{font} resource which is converted to @samp{FontStruct} by @file{Xt} or the latter left as a string, depending on whether -@file{Xft} was enabled by @samp{configure} or not. +@file{Xft} was enabled by @samp{configure} or not. There is also the +@samp{xftFont} resource which may be retargeted to use an Xt converter +function, but currently simply just an alias for the @samp{fcFontName} +resource. Stephen thinks that all of these should be converted to use the face approach, perhaps with some way to set specifications for individual @@ -27894,8 +27901,12 @@ this resource, and convert to a face in XEmacs rather than a font in Xt/Xft. @example -XEmacs*Tabs.xftFont: Bitstream Vera Sans-16 -XEmacs*menubar*xftFont: Bitstream Vera Sans-16 +! DEPRECATED resource xftFont. +! To be retargeted to an Xt converter which returns a font. +!XEmacs*Tabs.xftFont: Bitstream Vera Sans-16 +!XEmacs*menubar*xftFont: Bitstream Vera Sans-16 +XEmacs*Tabs.fcFontName: Bitstream Vera Sans-16 +XEmacs*menubar*fcFontName: Bitstream Vera Sans-16 XEmacs.modeline.attributeFont: Bitstream Charter-16 XEmacs.default.attributeFont: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono-16 @end example @@ -27903,7 +27914,14 @@ allows a lot more text to fit there. (Previously the font sizes were quite varied, and there was a comment that this weirdness gave good balance. This isn't true on my main platform, Mac OS X, and needs to be -rechecked on Linux, where it was observed.) +rechecked on Linux, where it was observed.) Note that you can probably +specify a particular Japanese font with something like +@example +XEmacs.default.attributeFont: Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,Sazanami Mincho-16 +@end example +Order is important; Japanese fonts will support English, but Sazanami's +Roman characters are not very pretty compared to the Bitstream font. +@strong{Note:} @emph{This is untested, but should work in theory.} @end itemize