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author | Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:43:47 +0000 |
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Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 Free Software Foundation, Inc. See the end of the file for license conditions. New font handling mechanism with font backend method ---------------------------------------------------- The configure script, if invoked with "--enable-font-backend", checks if libraries freetype and fontconfig exist. If they are both available, macro "USE_FONT_BACKEND" is defined in src/config.h. In that case, the existence of Xft library is checked too. The new files are: font.h -- header providing font-backend related structures (most important ones are "struct font" and "struct font_driver"), macros, and etc. font.c -- main font handling code. xfont.c -- font-driver on X for X core fonts. ftfont.c -- generic font-driver for FreeType fonts providing device-independent methods of struct font_driver. xftfont.c -- font-driver on X using Xft for FreeType fonts utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c. ftxfont.c -- font-driver on X directly using FreeType fonts utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c. w32font.c -- font driver on w32 using Windows native fonts, corresponding to xfont.c So we already have codes for X. For the other systems (w32 and mac), it seems that we need these files: atmfont.c -- font-driver on mac using ATM fonts, corresponding to xfont.c As BDF fonts are currently used on w32, we may also implement these: bdffont.c -- generic font-driver for BDF fonts, corresponding to ftfont.c bdfw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 using BDF fonts, corresponding to ftxfont.c But, as FreeType already supports BDF fonts, if FreeType and Fontconfig are also available on w32, what we need may be: ftw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 directly using FreeType fonts utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c. And, for those to work, macterm.c and macfns.c must be changed by the similar way as xterm.c and xfns.c (the parts "#ifdef USE_FONT_BACKEND" ... "#endif" should be checked). It may be interesting if Emacs supports a frame buffer directly and has these font driver. ftfbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for FreeType fonts. bdffbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for BDF fonts. Note: The fontset related codes are not yet matured to work well with the font backend method. So, for instance, even if you start Emacs as something like this: % emacs -fn tahoma Non-ASCII Latin characters will not be displayed by the font "tahoma". In such a case, please try this: (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin '("tahoma" . "unicode-bmp")) This file is part of GNU Emacs. GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option) any later version. GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.