Re: [Devel] Help me understand this... I'm loosing my sanity. Please.

[Emile van Bergen]

Hi,

On Sat, Apr 12, 2003 at 11:28:26AM +0200, Maurizio Colucci wrote:

> > I believe it is too difficult for an ordinary user to turn the
> > autohinter on. The only way I found is to recompile and substitute the
> > library. You mentioned there is another way, without recompiling,
> > maybe tweaking fonts.conf, but I could not understand how. ANd
> > whatever be that way, it is still too difficult :-).
> >
> > I mean: I have nothing against writing a text file for configuring
> > things, on the contrary, I prefer to do so. But the user manual at
> > fontconfig.org
> >
> > http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html
> >
> > is obscure for me. I couldn't understand where and how to set the
> > autohint property to true. And whether I can to that for all fonts.
> 
> Ok, I did it, by adding the following to /etc/fonts/local.conf:
> 
>   <match target="font">
>    <edit name="autohint" mode="assign_replace"><bool>true</bool></edit>
>   </match>
> 
> But this is sick---at least, this is the first impression you get! I
> mean, what was wrong with <autohint>true</autohint>

It /is/ sick IMHO. It's like Apache's mod_rewrite for fonts, with a bit
of awk and an unhealthy dose of XML. There was a nice long thread on
debian-devel on it, see eg.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2003/debian-devel-200301/msg01276.html

Cheers,


Emile.

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