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FS#5453 - fontconfig: please mention DejaVu in /etc/fonts/fonts.conf

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Dimos Dimoulis (dimosd) - Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 10:52 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Packages: Current
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture not specified
Severity Medium
Priority Normal
Reported Version 0.7.2 Gimmick
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 0
Private No

Details

Although there's a package for Dejavu in community, actually using it as a replacement for Bitstream Vera doesn't work without jumping some hoops because the commonly installed ttf-ms-fonts takes precedence over it. Could you consider patching /etc/fonts/fonts.conf to mention DejaVu as an option?
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Closed by  Jan de Groot (JGC)
Friday, 13 October 2006, 19:53 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  Included by default in fontconfig 2.4.1
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Wednesday, 27 September 2006, 11:07 GMT
Dejavu will replace bitstream vera in a while in archlinux, and so the fontconfig configuration will use it instead of bitstream vera in the near future.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 28 September 2006, 08:42 GMT
Please also move ttf-freefont and ttf-linux-libertine to Current or Extra.
IMHO it would be better to add all major fonts ina all repos to fonts.conf?
Comment by Jan de Groot (JGC) - Thursday, 28 September 2006, 09:13 GMT
fontconfig 2.4 comes with many changes in conf.d/ files, so it would be nice if these fonts could put a file there. I don't know how it works yet, have to take a look at it.
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 28 September 2006, 09:27 GMT
Wow, didn't know that fontconfig 2.4 will be so soon. Hmm... wouldn't there be same big problems as with fontconfig 2.2?
Comment by Roman Kyrylych (Romashka) - Thursday, 28 September 2006, 09:40 GMT
Oops, it seems I confused fontconfig with freetype. :-/
Comment by Dimos Dimoulis (dimosd) - Thursday, 28 September 2006, 18:49 GMT
I sent a revised pkgbuild to Dejavu's maintainer that does exactly this, put a configuration file in conf.d that adds Dejavu first in the list of preferred fonts. (Unfortunately he rejected it). If other fonts would do the same, the order of preference would be determined by the order these files are included. Have a look if you like.
(application/x-gzip)    ttf-dejavu.tar.gz (1.1 KiB)
Comment by 甘露(Lu Gan) (ganlu) - Friday, 29 September 2006, 06:29 GMT
Why not defien font order in local.conf like what we did the old days? For example:

<!--
DejaVu Serif faces
-->
<alias>
<family>DejaVu DejaVu Serif</family>
<family>WenQuanYi Bitmap Song</family>
<family>AR PL New Sung</family>
<family>AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni</family>
<family>AR PL ShanHeiSun Uni MBE</family>
<family>AR PL ZenKai Uni</family>
<family>Times New Roman</family>
<family>Thorndale AMT</family>
<family>Times</family>
<family>Nimbus Roman No9 L</family>
<family>Luxi DejaVu Serif</family>
<family>Kochi Mincho</family>
<family>AR PL SungtiL GB</family>
<family>AR PL Mingti2L Big5</family>
<family>ï¼­ï¼³ æ~X~Næ~\~]</family>
<family>Baekmuk Batang</family>
<family>FreeDejaVu Serif</family>
<default>
<family>serif</family>
</default>
</alias>


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