Package: xfonts-traditional
Version: 1.6
Here is an example of how to make fontconfig capable of finding trad
fixed. We need part of the attached file.
17:30 <Diziet> gitk seems to be using something that doesn't understand fixed.
17:32 <fanf2> damnit entrepreneurial students spamming from amazon aws
17:33 <mdw> http://www.distorted.org.uk/~markw/t/gitk-fixed.png <- it's possible
17:33 <Diziet> Good. How ?
17:34 <Diziet> set textfont fixed
17:34 <Diziet> ^ does not work
17:34 <mdw> http://git.distorted.org.uk/~mdw/profile/blob/HEAD:/dot/fonts.conf
<- trick 1
17:34 <Diziet> jeez
17:35 <Diziet> Should that file be in xfonts-traditional ?
17:35 <mdw> set textfont {MiscFixed6x13 12} <- trick 2
17:35 <mdw> Not sure.
17:35 <mdw> Making use of the fake font once it's there can be... tricky.
17:36 <pm215> truly you are the wisdom of all fonts
17:36 <Diziet> I put that in /etc/fonts/conf.d/90-tradfixed.conf and now "set
textfont fixed" works
17:36 <Diziet> And "Fixed" now appears in the list of fonts in the gui font
selector.
17:37 <Diziet> Seems perfect to me.
17:38 <mdw> Really!? Wow. It always required hideous bodging for me. :-/
17:39 <Diziet> And I can select it in gnome-terminal. (Which comes up in black
on black by default ...)
17:39 <mdw> That's really strange.
17:39 <Diziet> Is it ? :-)
17:39 <Diziet> May I put your file in my package ?
17:40 <Diziet> Also may I paste this conversation into the bug report ?
17:40 <mdw> By all means.
17:40 <mdw> Ahh. For me, plain `fixed' gives me misc, not trad.
17:41 <Diziet> Did you tell xfonts-traditional to fiddle the "fixed" alias ?
17:41 <mdw> I told it not to, I think.
17:41 <Diziet> Ah well there's your problem :-).
17:42 <Diziet> Anyway including your fontconfig guff is clearly a step in the
right direction.
17:43 <mdw> Oh. I tell a lie.
17:43 <mdw> Template: xfonts-traditional/remap-fixed
17:43 <mdw> Value: true
17:43 <Diziet> Looking at your fonts.conf stanza there it seems like it ought
to DTRT
17:43 <mdw> And `xterm -fn fixed' is right. OK, now I'm officially confused.
17:46 <Diziet> Looking at that file, I think xfonts-traditional wants only part
of it.
17:46 <mdw> That's quite likely.
<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
<!-- Hacking for the fixed font.
After many half-hearted attempts to make this work properly, I'm
finally settling on this approach: define MiscFixed6x13 as a
magic name for the right font, and then hack configuration files
as necessary to make them use it.
-->
<selectfont>
<acceptfont>
<pattern>
<patelt name="family"><string>Fixed</string></patelt>
<patelt name="width"><int>87</int></patelt>
</pattern>
</acceptfont>
<rejectfont>
<pattern>
<patelt name="scalable"><bool>false</bool></patelt>
</pattern>
</rejectfont>
</selectfont>
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family"><string>MiscFixed6x13</string></test>
<test name="slant" compare="more_eq"><int>10</int></test>
<!-- edit name="size"><double>12</double></edit -->
<edit name="style"><string>Oblique SemiCondensed</string></edit>
<edit name="width"><int>87</int></edit>
<edit name="family"><string>Fixed</string></edit>
<edit name="foundry"><string>Trad</string></edit>
<edit name="dpi"><int>75</int></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="pixelsize"><double>13</double></edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family"><string>MiscFixed6x13</string></test>
<test name="weight" compare="more_eq"><int>150</int></test>
<!-- edit name="size"><double>12</double></edit -->
<edit name="style"><string>Bold SemiCondensed</string></edit>
<edit name="width"><int>87</int></edit>
<edit name="family"><string>Fixed</string></edit>
<edit name="foundry"><string>Trad</string></edit>
<edit name="dpi"><int>75</int></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="pixelsize"><double>13</double></edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family"><string>MiscFixed6x13</string></test>
<!-- edit name="size"><double>12</double></edit -->
<edit name="style"><string>SemiCondensed</string></edit>
<edit name="width"><int>87</int></edit>
<edit name="family"><string>Fixed</string></edit>
<edit name="foundry"><string>Trad</string></edit>
<edit name="dpi"><int>75</int></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="pixelsize"><double>13</double></edit>
</match>
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family"><string>Symbol</string></test>
<edit name="foundry"><string>urw</string></edit>
</match>
<!-- Hacking for the symbol font.
This seems to be necessary to get Iceweasel/Firefox to do the
right thing with MathML and suchlike.
-->
<match target="pattern">
<test name="family"><string>symbol</string></test>
<edit binding="strong" mode="append" name="family">
<string>Standard Symbols L</string>
</edit>
</match>
<match targets="pattern">
<test name="family"><string>Geneva</string></test>
<edit mode="append" name="family"><string>FreeSans</string></edit>
</match>
<!-- KDE put this here, but it seems worthwhile.
Modified so as to force slight hinting rather than medium,
because that actually seems to produce more legible characters.
-->
<match target="font">
<test name="scalable"><bool>true</bool></test>
<edit mode="assign" name="rgba"><const>none</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hinting"><bool>true</bool></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle"><const>hintslight</const></edit>
<edit mode="assign" name="antialias"><bool>true</bool></edit>
</match>
</fontconfig>
