On 2023-09-14 08:31, Jon Turney wrote:
On 12/09/2023 22:21, Brian Inglis via Cygwin-apps wrote:
I would like to offer the following package on Cygwin:
* last-resort-font 15.100
This package is available in the Arch, Fedora, Gentoo, and OpenSUSE
distributions.
It is licensed under SIL OFL-1.1.
It was originally developed by Apple for macOS, modified to work on
non-Apple systems for Unicode.org, and is updated by Michael Everson of
Evertype and Unicode.org, and released by Unicode.org in conjunction
with the standard, which has just been updated to 15.1.
See:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallback_font#Unicode_Last_Resort_font
[...]
cygport:
https://cygwin.com/cgit/cygwin-packages/playground/commit/?id=80da73a6dc50d3997c819ac16132292245bd584a
Looks good.
I added this to your packages.
Thanks.
Is there some kind of fontconfig configuration file which could be included in
this package that this would benefit from, causing it to be used as a glyph
fallback font?
Hi Jon,
Thank you!
I researched this and glyph fallback seems more automatic for fontconfig than
Windows; you can `fc-list :charset=ff010` and only lastresort shows up, whereas
unifont also appears when I specify a glyph assigned only in Unicode 15.1:
1F76E 🝮 ALCHEMICAL SYMBOL FOR HOUR
with `fc-list :charset=1f76e`, and perhaps Windows fonts, depending on whether
you have updated recently.
I looked at unifont, which will be upgraded this weekend, and
libfontconfig-common sets it up as generic family aliases which prefer fonts
with lots of real glyphs, so I could copy
/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/69-unifont.conf into the package as
lastresort.conf and newfontconf {,99-}lastresort.conf in install: lastresort is
the fc-match pattern for the font.
Also rechecking unifont and font.cygclass, last resort also needs an explicit
REQUIRES=fontconfig, as that is not in font.cygclass.
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Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis Calgary, Alberta, Canada
La perfection est atteinte Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer but when there is no more to cut
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
