Re: New IPA fonts in OBS M17N:Devel repo

At Thu, 02 Jul 2009 14:08:43 +0200,
Mike FABIAN wrote:
> 
> Takashi Iwai <[email protected]> :
> 
> > I pursued this problem a bit more.  A bad news is that it's actually
> > no Qt3-issue but rather about fontconfig / freetype.
> > A good news is that there is already a workaround for such a problem.
> > Simply setting globaladvance to false for these fonts should suffice.
> 
> I didn't yet have time to check the new fonts. But I
> did already set globaladvance to false for all CJK dual-width
> fonts in /etc/fonts/suse-pre-user.conf:
> 
> <!--
>   The dual-width Asian fonts (spacing=dual) are not rendered correctly,
>   apparently Xft forces all widths to match. Trying to disable the
>   width forcing code by setting globaladvance=false alone doesn't  help.
>   As a brute force workaround, also set spacing=proportional, i.e. handle
>   them as proportional fonts:
> -->
> 
>         <match target="font">
>                 <test name="lang" compare="contains">
>                         <string>ja</string>
>                         <string>zh</string>
>                         <string>ko</string>
>                 </test>
>                 <test name="spacing" compare="eq">
>                         <const>dual</const>
>                 </test>
>                 <edit name="spacing">
>                         <const>proportional</const>
>                 </edit>
>                 <edit name="globaladvance" binding="strong">
>                         <bool>false</bool>
>                 </edit>
>         </match>
> 
> Wasn't this enough?

Apparently not.

> Don't the new fonts match the "dual"?

Doesn't look so.  fc-list gives no fonts with dual spacing.


Takashi
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