Date: Sun, 20 Sep 2015 08:21:58 +0900 (JST) From: Hiroki Sato <hrs@FreeBSD.org> To: bapt@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: <20150920.082158.1766417747729697298.hrs@allbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20150919230718.GK57815@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> References: <20150914055033.GA54344@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net> <20150920.075558.41121606053469872.hrs@allbsd.org> <20150919230718.GK57815@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>
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----Security_Multipart(Sun_Sep_20_08_21_58_2015_175)-- Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote in <20150919230718.GK57815@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>: ba> On Sun, Sep 20, 2015 at 07:55:58AM +0900, Hiroki Sato wrote: ba> > Baptiste Daroussin <bapt@FreeBSD.org> wrote ba> > in <20150914055033.GA54344@ivaldir.etoilebsd.net>: ba> > ba> > ba> On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:30:22PM +0000, Hiroki Sato wrote: ba> > ba> > Author: hrs ba> > ba> > Date: Sun Sep 13 23:30:21 2015 ba> > ba> > New Revision: 396872 ba> > ba> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/396872 ba> > ba> > ba> > ba> > Log: ba> > ba> > Add "fc", "fcfontsdir", "fontsdir", and "none" arguments to USES=fonts. ba> > ba> > They controls whether fc-cache and/or mkfontdir run in ba> > ba> > post-{,de}install targets. ba> > ba> > ba> > ba> > japanese/font-* use manually generates fonts.dir entries to utilize ba> > ba> > special modifiers which are useful for CJK fonts. Because mkfontdir ba> > ba> > does not understand and silently remove them from fonts.dir, ba> > ba> > options like fonts:fc or fonts:none is required. ba> > ba> > ba> > ba> > Approved by: portmgr (bapt) ba> > ba> ba> > ba> Thank you! can you add a comment at the top of fonts.mk to explain this issue? ba> > ba> That would avoid someone else coming in a few years making the same mistake as I ba> > ba> did. ba> > ba> > Sorry for the delay. I added some comments about this just now. ba> > ba> > ba> Do you know how they do fix in linux land? because when working on the fonts, I ba> > ba> found nothing special being done on any Linux distro, have I missed something? ba> > ba> > I do not think most of Linux distros care about CJK fonts in ba> > XLFD---at least for Japanese fonts. Some distros for Japanese market ba> > use a small script to generate fonts.dir. RedHat was using ttmkfdir ba> > utility (included as x11-fonts/ttmkfdir but removed a while ago), but ba> > there is no special handling of fonts.dir in RPM of Japanese fonts ba> > these days. This may be because most of applications which support ba> > CJK fonts now use Xft/fontconfig only. ba> > ba> > ttmkfdir is one of the utilities which can understand extensions ba> > designed for CJK fonts (-x flag). The difference from normal XFLD ba> > entries is modifiers. In the following example: ba> > ba> > fn=1:dfhsg3.ttc -dynalab-dfhsgothicp-light-r-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1983-0 ba> > ba> > "fn" specifies font number in TTC. And since most of Japanese fonts ba> > do not have italic variant in the font glyphs, "ai" is used to ba> > generate "poor man's italic" glyphs: ba> > ba> > fn=1:ai=0.1:dfhsg3.ttc -dynalab-dfhsgothicp-light-i-normal--0-0-0-0-p-0-jisx0208.1983-0 ba> > ba> > I am still not sure of what is the best way for us to maintain ba> > fonts.dir which mkfontdir cannot understand. While ttmkfdir supports ba> > it, this utility is not upper-compatible with mkfontdir. One of the ba> > practical ways is that putting a Japanese font to a separate ba> > directory and maintaining fonts.dir by pkg-{,de}install script. ba> > ba> First thanks for the explanation and the comment that would prevent someone like ba> me doing the same mistake. ba> ba> Do you know if someone is speaking with xorg people to that they can work on the ba> issue? No, I don't. I think it is relatively easy to make a patch to add ttmkfdir-like feature into mkfontdir, though. -- Hiroki ----Security_Multipart(Sun_Sep_20_08_21_58_2015_175)-- Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1 iEYEABECAAYFAlX97hYACgkQTyzT2CeTzy3CtACgqwrJRnmF42YMw66kwG6khrGu RJoAn2ZrGOGCMV7Whvsk9m4VprHEkeok =4W+U -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ----Security_Multipart(Sun_Sep_20_08_21_58_2015_175)----
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