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5df4f04c | 1 | Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011 |
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2 | Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
3 | See the end of the file for license conditions. | |
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5 | ||
6 | New font handling mechanism with font backend method | |
7 | ---------------------------------------------------- | |
8 | ||
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. | |
13 | ||
14 | The new files are: | |
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 | |
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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. | |
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33 | So we already have codes for X and w32. For Mac it seems that we need |
34 | these files: | |
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35 | atmfont.c -- font-driver on mac using ATM fonts, corresponding |
36 | to xfont.c | |
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 | |
39 | ftfont.c | |
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. | |
46 | ||
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). | |
50 | ||
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. | |
55 | ||
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: | |
59 | % emacs -fn tahoma | |
60 | Non-ASCII Latin characters will not be displayed by the font "tahoma". | |
61 | In such a case, please try this: | |
62 | ||
63 | (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin '("tahoma" . "unicode-bmp")) | |
64 | ||
65 | \f | |
66 | This file is part of GNU Emacs. | |
67 | ||
9ad5de0c | 68 | GNU Emacs is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify |
e88a2ed3 | 69 | it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by |
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70 | the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or |
71 | (at your option) any later version. | |
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72 | |
73 | GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, | |
74 | but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of | |
75 | MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the | |
76 | GNU General Public License for more details. | |
77 | ||
78 | You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License | |
9ad5de0c | 79 | along with GNU Emacs. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. |