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5 New font handling mechanism with font backend method
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9 font.h -- header providing font-backend related structures
10 (most important ones are "struct font" and "struct
11 font_driver"), macros, and etc.
12 font.c -- main font handling code.
13 xfont.c -- font-driver on X for X core fonts.
14 ftfont.c -- generic font-driver for FreeType fonts providing
15 device-independent methods of struct font_driver.
16 xftfont.c -- font-driver on X using Xft for FreeType fonts
17 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c.
18 ftxfont.c -- font-driver on X directly using FreeType fonts
19 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c.
20 w32font.c -- font driver on w32 using Windows native fonts,
21 corresponding to xfont.c
22 w32uniscribe.c -- font driver on w32, using the uniscribe API
23 to provide complex script support for opentype fonts on
24 Windows 2000 and later, or earlier versions of Windows
25 with uniscribe installed as an add-on.
27 So we already have codes for X and w32. For Mac it seems that we need
29 atmfont.c -- font-driver on mac using ATM fonts, corresponding
31 As BDF fonts are currently used on w32, we may also implement these:
32 bdffont.c -- generic font-driver for BDF fonts, corresponding to
34 bdfw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 using BDF fonts,
35 corresponding to ftxfont.c
36 But, as FreeType already supports BDF fonts, if FreeType and
37 Fontconfig are also available on w32, what we need may be:
38 ftw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 directly using FreeType fonts
39 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c.
41 It may be interesting if Emacs supports a frame buffer directly and
42 has these font driver.
43 ftfbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for FreeType fonts.
44 bdffbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for BDF fonts.
46 Note: The fontset related codes are not yet matured to work well with
47 the font backend method. So, for instance, even if you start Emacs
48 as something like this:
50 Non-ASCII Latin characters will not be displayed by the font "tahoma".
51 In such a case, please try this:
53 (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin '("tahoma" . "unicode-bmp"))
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