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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: font fallback issues
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 23:30:05 -0000 (UTC)
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Nuno Silva <nunojsilva@invalid.invalid> wrote at 19:15 this Saturday (GMT):
> On 2024-05-24, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>
>> On Fri, 24 May 2024 17:40:06 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
>>
>>> Well, I read that most Linux apps use fontconfig for font rendering ...
>>
>> Fontconfig is used for matching fonts, not for the actual rendering.
>
> But it's this matching that at least selects fonts. I have some settings
> for antialiasing and hinting in its configuration file too (although
> these days it's more complicated to guess where that file goes, given
> they seem to have changed to $XDG_CONFIG_HOME). So fontconfig can at
> least control that (settings) in some cases. (I probably have settings
> for the same purpose but for Xft in $HOME/.Xdefaults.)
>
> Now can fontconfig control replacement too?
>
> But, yes, another challenge is that not everything will go via
> fontconfig, maybe the best approach is to try to "merge" the replacement
> fonts and the main font in a single font, so that there's no question of
> how will the fallback be handled?


Maybe, but I'm not sure how..
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