Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 01:07:19 +0200 From: Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> To: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> Cc: ports-committers@freebsd.org, svn-ports-all@freebsd.org, svn-ports-head@freebsd.org Subject: Re: svn commit: r396872 - in head: Keywords Mk/Uses Message-ID: <20150919230718.GK57815@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> In-Reply-To: <20150920.075558.41121606053469872.hrs@allbsd.org> References: <201509132330.t8DNUMEd025676@repo.freebsd.org> <20150914055033.GA54344@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20150920.075558.41121606053469872.hrs@allbsd.org>
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--pN9MePJoZbRKbUk1 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 07:55:58AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: > Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote > in <20150914055033.GA54344@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>: >=20 > ba> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:30:22PM +0000, Hiroki Sato wrote: > ba> > Author: hrs > ba> > Date: Sun Sep 13 23:30:21 2015 > ba> > New Revision: 396872 > ba> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/396872 > ba> > > ba> > Log: > ba> > Add "fc", "fcfontsdir", "fontsdir", and "none" arguments to USES= =3Dfonts. > ba> > They controls whether fc-cache and/or mkfontdir run in > ba> > post-{,de}install targets. > ba> > > ba> > japanese/font-* use manually generates fonts.dir entries to utili= ze > ba> > special modifiers which are useful for CJK fonts. Because mkfont= dir > ba> > does not understand and silently remove them from fonts.dir, > ba> > options like fonts:fc or fonts:none is required. > ba> > > ba> > Approved by: portmgr (bapt) > ba> > ba> Thank you! can you add a comment at the top of fonts.mk to explain th= is issue? > ba> That would avoid someone else coming in a few years making the same m= istake as I > ba> did. >=20 > Sorry for the delay. I added some comments about this just now. >=20 > ba> Do you know how they do fix in linux land? because when working on th= e fonts, I > ba> found nothing special being done on any Linux distro, have I missed s= omething? >=20 > I do not think most of Linux distros care about CJK fonts in > XLFD---at least for Japanese fonts. Some distros for Japanese market > use a small script to generate fonts.dir. RedHat was using ttmkfdir > utility (included as x11-fonts/ttmkfdir but removed a while ago), but > there is no special handling of fonts.dir in RPM of Japanese fonts > these days. This may be because most of applications which support > CJK fonts now use Xft/fontconfig only. >=20 > ttmkfdir is one of the utilities which can understand extensions > designed for CJK fonts (-x flag). The difference from normal XFLD > entries is modifiers. In the following example: >=20 > fn=3D1:dfhsg3.ttc -dynalab-dfhsgothicp-light-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0= 208.1983-0 >=20 > "fn" specifies font number in TTC. And since most of Japanese fonts > do not have italic variant in the font glyphs, "ai" is used to > generate "poor man's italic" glyphs: >=20 > fn=3D1:ai=3D0.1:dfhsg3.ttc -dynalab-dfhsgothicp-light-i-normal--0-0-0-0-= p-0-jisx0208.1983-0 >=20 > I am still not sure of what is the best way for us to maintain > fonts.dir which mkfontdir cannot understand. While ttmkfdir supports > it, this utility is not upper-compatible with mkfontdir. One of the > practical ways is that putting a Japanese font to a separate > directory and maintaining fonts.dir by pkg-{,de}install script. >=20 First thanks for the explanation and the comment that would prevent someone= like me doing the same mistake. Do you know if someone is speaking with xorg people to that they can work o= n the issue? Best regards, Bapt --pN9MePJoZbRKbUk1 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEARECAAYFAlX96qYACgkQ8kTtMUmk6Ex0jgCffckOHKxRi1hqC3FuKFEhnld5 O30AoLK7UxQnkOMN0pGu/88MXDVx+TkO =sEp/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --pN9MePJoZbRKbUk1--
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