Arch Linux

Hi
Libxft-embold patch for letting libXft 2.1.7 pick up FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden of freetype 2.1.10.This patch depends on JGC's xft-2.1.7.patch in CURRENT cvs .Libxft-embold is very important,because some font only have "Regular" style,no bold style. In particular CJK font are usual only have "Regular" style.

The new version of freetype(reeftype2.1.10) have added FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden API so it can mulated bold style font if font is regular style only,FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden API must work with fontconfig 2.3.X and libXft. Fontconfig 2.3.2 and reeftype2.1.10 are in arch Repo and luckly JGC have
backported libxft 2.1.7 to xorg 6.8.2 . So just let libxft to pick up FT_GlyphSlot_Embolden,and libxft-embold patch
do that.

After patched and rebuilded the xorg 6.8.2. It need add rule to /etc/fonts/font.conf or local.conf to make artificial emboldening of glyphs work .

rule :
<match target="font">
<!-- check to see if the font is just regular -->
<test name="weight" compare="less_eq">
<int>100</int>
</test>
<!-- check to see if the pattern requests bold -->
<test target="pattern" name="weight" compare="more_eq">
<int>180</int>
</test>
<!-- set the embolden flag -->
<edit name="embolden" mode="assign">
<bool>true</bool>
</edit>
</match>

It is very painful thing that Opera, Firefox can't display bold style font when browing webpage :-( ,and will very exciting if Arch has artificial embold font support by default :-). By now only SUSE and Mandriva have artificial embold font support by default,Even Not Fedora core 4 and Ubuntu 5.10.