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