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

[Owen Taylor]

On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 06:42, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> 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

echo "Xft.autohint: 1" | xrdb -merge

(or put it in your ~/.Xresources) should do the trick as well.

Regards,
                                            Owen