On 11/19/19 8:55 AM, Antonis Tsolomitis wrote: > > I did not understand... does it (or will it) support ttf fonts? > > If so, then I think that the go fonts from > https://blog.golang.org/go-fonts > > is a great choice. Because they are of high quality, from a > great font designer (Bigelow), and are related with the history of CDE > as it was using Lucida on Solaris. > > The go fonts support many-many codepages including Cyrillic and Greek. >
Motif can support TTF via the XFT library, which means that CDE can too: https://sourceforge.net/p/cdesktopenv/wiki/FontsWithXFT/ -jon > Antonis. > > > On 19/11/19 2:51 π.μ., Jon Trulson wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just merged the utf8-conversion branch to master. This branch >> converts the languages from ISO8859-1 to UTF-8. This was done for the >> message catalogs, resources and other related files. >> >> However, documentation (help, manpages, and the dtinfo guides) are still >> always built using the ISO8859-1 locales. >> >> To support UTF-8 documentation, our docbook sources and text need to be >> updated to something from this century, and ideally from this decade. >> In addition, a conversion to XML would also be required as a result. >> So, until that happens, we still need ISO8859-1 for the docs. This also >> means viewing the docs while in a utf8 locale may show anomalies as >> non-utf8 8 bit sequences might not be rendered properly. >> >> I had tried to convert the docs blindly to utf-8, which worked fine >> initially, but the tools we are using crapped out all over the place, >> and especially instant (used to create the help text) crashed quite >> frequently. I hate instant. >> >> So, I decided not to 'hack' it - it needs to be done correctly. >> >> There are undoubtedly some issues with this conversion - for example >> dtterm does not handle UTF-8 sequences properly where 2 or more >> characters are supposed to be drawn in the same cell (overlay ed) for >> example. As always, patches welcome. >> >> A choice of good ISO10646 X11 fonts also needs to be selected. Ideally >> fonts that look decent and have a good coverage of the utf-8 character >> space and will work properly with CDE's rather awkward font configurator. >> >> It would be good to explore XFT on CDE too, as this can help - it can >> select glyphs from other fonts if a font you are using does not support >> a glyph, for example. Plus all that anti-aliasing goodness, and the >> generally better quality and completeness of TTF fonts. >> >> But, if anyone has suggestions for good fontsets we can configure CDE >> with (via cde's fonts.alias files), let us know. >> >> Since at least linux and the BSD's are using essentially the same X11 >> environment and software, we should be able to come up with something >> that will work for most users out of the box. >> >> > -- Jon Trulson "Entropy. It isn't what it used to be." -- Sheldon _______________________________________________ cdesktopenv-devel mailing list cdesktopenv-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/cdesktopenv-devel
