[vdr] [ANNOUNCE] VDR developer version 1.5.3

[Anssi Hannula]

Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
> On 06/16/07 15:36, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>> Klaus Schmidinger wrote:
>>> On 06/10/07 17:53, Anssi Hannula wrote:
>>>> +  strcpy(FontOsd, "arialbd.ttf");
>>>> +  strcpy(FontSml, "arial.ttf");
>>>> +  strcpy(FontFix, "courbd.ttf");
>>>>
>>>> I'd use some free-as-in-freedom font (Vera?) by default, that are more 
>>>> likely installed in systems.
>>> Those were the ones suggested in Alexander Riedel's original patch.
>>> Which ones would you suggest?
>>>
>> If you will decide to go with fontconfig, just for the record, the 
>> relevant aliases AFAIK are "sans-serif:bold", "sans-serif", and 
>> "monospace:bold", i.e. for the current defaults "Arial Bold", "Arial" 
>> and "Courier Bold". There probably is another way to specify bold (or 
>> query bold capability) using fontconfig functions as well, but :bold 
>> seems to work for me.
> 
> Yes, I'm currently going for fontconfig - looks very promising so far.
> 
> And your hint is much appreciated - that's exactly what I needed
> right now :-)

About those bolds.. It seems using the ":bold" suffix isn't reliable, 
i.e. at least here using "monospace:bold" and calling FcFontSort returns 
non-monospace fonts ahead of the wanted monospace fonts.

Using this it works correctly, though, and the bold monospace font is 
returned first:
FcPatternAddInteger(fc_pattern, FC_WEIGHT, FC_WEIGHT_BOLD)

-- 
Anssi Hannula