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author | Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> |
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92006 | 1 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 |
2 Free Software Foundation, Inc. | |
3 See the end of the file for license conditions. | |
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6 New font handling mechanism with font backend method | |
7 ---------------------------------------------------- | |
8 | |
9 The configure script, if invoked with "--enable-font-backend", checks | |
10 if libraries freetype and fontconfig exist. If they are both | |
11 available, macro "USE_FONT_BACKEND" is defined in src/config.h. In | |
12 that case, the existence of Xft library is checked too. | |
13 | |
14 The new files are: | |
15 font.h -- header providing font-backend related structures | |
16 (most important ones are "struct font" and "struct | |
17 font_driver"), macros, and etc. | |
18 font.c -- main font handling code. | |
19 xfont.c -- font-driver on X for X core fonts. | |
20 ftfont.c -- generic font-driver for FreeType fonts providing | |
21 device-independent methods of struct font_driver. | |
22 xftfont.c -- font-driver on X using Xft for FreeType fonts | |
23 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c. | |
24 ftxfont.c -- font-driver on X directly using FreeType fonts | |
25 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c. | |
26 w32font.c -- font driver on w32 using Windows native fonts, | |
27 corresponding to xfont.c | |
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28 w32uniscribe.c -- font driver on w32, using the uniscribe API |
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29 to provide complex script support for opentype fonts on |
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30 Windows 2000 and later, or earlier versions of Windows |
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31 with uniscribe installed as an add-on. |
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33 So we already have codes for X and w32. For Mac it seems that we need |
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34 these files: |
92006 | 35 atmfont.c -- font-driver on mac using ATM fonts, corresponding |
36 to xfont.c | |
37 As BDF fonts are currently used on w32, we may also implement these: | |
38 bdffont.c -- generic font-driver for BDF fonts, corresponding to | |
39 ftfont.c | |
40 bdfw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 using BDF fonts, | |
41 corresponding to ftxfont.c | |
42 But, as FreeType already supports BDF fonts, if FreeType and | |
43 Fontconfig are also available on w32, what we need may be: | |
44 ftw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 directly using FreeType fonts | |
45 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c. | |
46 | |
47 And, for those to work, macterm.c and macfns.c must be changed by the | |
48 similar way as xterm.c and xfns.c (the parts "#ifdef USE_FONT_BACKEND" | |
49 ... "#endif" should be checked). | |
50 | |
51 It may be interesting if Emacs supports a frame buffer directly and | |
52 has these font driver. | |
53 ftfbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for FreeType fonts. | |
54 bdffbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for BDF fonts. | |
55 | |
56 Note: The fontset related codes are not yet matured to work well with | |
57 the font backend method. So, for instance, even if you start Emacs | |
58 as something like this: | |
59 % emacs -fn tahoma | |
60 Non-ASCII Latin characters will not be displayed by the font "tahoma". | |
61 In such a case, please try this: | |
62 | |
63 (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin '("tahoma" . "unicode-bmp")) | |
64 | |
65 | |
66 This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
67 | |
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68 GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
92006 | 69 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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70 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
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71 (at your option) any later version. |
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73 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
74 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
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