Using fontconfig

[Mike Hearn]

Hi to anybody who knows about fonts,

It'd be nice to use fontconfig in future to locate font installation
paths. There is a simple API:

FcStrList FcConfigGetFontDirs (FcConfig   *config);

which should let us use a small part of it, even if we don't use all of
it. It means we don't need to make the user manually configure font
paths.

Does anybody know how hard this would be?

thanks -mike

[Huw D M Davies]

On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 02:51:39PM +0100, Mike Hearn wrote:
> Hi to anybody who knows about fonts,
>
> It'd be nice to use fontconfig in future to locate font installation
> paths. There is a simple API:
>
> FcStrList FcConfigGetFontDirs (FcConfig   *config);
>
> which should let us use a small part of it, even if we don't use all of
> it. It means we don't need to make the user manually configure font
> paths.
>
> Does anybody know how hard this would be?

I've done this for CrossOver 2.1 and hopefully we'll merge it into
winehq soon.  Rather than a directory by directory approach, I'm
walking the entire font list and using any TrueType fonts that I come
across.

Huw.