Re: Fonts for the backend

[Thomas Weber]

Am Mittwoch, den 25.06.2008, 10:08 +0300 schrieb Shai Ayal:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 8:29 AM, Thomas Weber
> <address@hidden> wrote:>
> >> maintain the fonts
> > Is this so much work? I really don't have a clue, but I'd say that the
> > above fonts are pretty stable, aren't they?
> 
> As far as I know they are stable, but I since my knowledge is based
> on octplot which has a pretty small user-base, I'm not sure it applies
> here

I looked at octplot's fonts and the changes to them some time ago. Most
upstream changes were in stuff like cyrillic glyphs. 

> > [1] Not sure if that actually works that way, but if something like
> > $./configure --font-path=/usr/share/fonts/truetype
> > worked, that would be cool.
> 
> The thing is we need some "Standard" fonts -- serif, sans, mono and
> symbol and we need to test for their existence in some
> system-independent way

You shouldn't test. Just depend on the included fonts, but access them
by one unified directory. Distributors can then switch that directory at
build time if wished.

        Thomas