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* admin/notes/font-backend: Remove obsolete information.
| author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
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| date | Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:45:20 -0700 |
| parents | 1d1d5d9bd884 |
| children | 417b1e4d63cd |
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| 3 See the end of the file for license conditions. | 3 See the end of the file for license conditions. |
| 4 | 4 |
| 5 | 5 |
| 6 New font handling mechanism with font backend method | 6 New font handling mechanism with font backend method |
| 7 ---------------------------------------------------- | 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 | 8 |
| 14 The new files are: | 9 The new files are: |
| 15 font.h -- header providing font-backend related structures | 10 font.h -- header providing font-backend related structures |
| 16 (most important ones are "struct font" and "struct | 11 (most important ones are "struct font" and "struct |
| 17 font_driver"), macros, and etc. | 12 font_driver"), macros, and etc. |
| 42 But, as FreeType already supports BDF fonts, if FreeType and | 37 But, as FreeType already supports BDF fonts, if FreeType and |
| 43 Fontconfig are also available on w32, what we need may be: | 38 Fontconfig are also available on w32, what we need may be: |
| 44 ftw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 directly using FreeType fonts | 39 ftw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 directly using FreeType fonts |
| 45 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c. | 40 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c. |
| 46 | 41 |
| 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 | 42 It may be interesting if Emacs supports a frame buffer directly and |
| 52 has these font driver. | 43 has these font driver. |
| 53 ftfbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for FreeType fonts. | 44 ftfbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for FreeType fonts. |
| 54 bdffbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for BDF fonts. | 45 bdffbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for BDF fonts. |
| 55 | 46 |