Re: Markup in messages

["Abel Cheung" <abelcheung gmail com>]

On 7/25/06, Behdad Esfahbod <behdad behdad org> wrote:
> This is the wrongest approach to solve this problem, and indeed what
> Roozbeh has had in mind.  In the case of Chinese fonts with no bold
> variant, there are a lot of possibilities on Linux.  First, with the
> latest version of the text rendering stack, we should be emboldening for
> you on the fly.  Second, if you want to replace bold with italic, you
> can do that with a fontconfig configuration file.  There is a bug
> against Pango to make artificial bold and italic faces even show in the
> font selection widget.  That way, there's really no excuse to not use
> bold faces (unless you are dealing with a bitmap font of course).

As I replied in another subthread, that kind of approach is
of course wrong, _right now_. Artificial emboldening is
available for quite some time in freetype, and works for
chinese (though distro only catch up around 1 yr ago).
In the old days things are a bit different -- there is
no artificial embolden in freetype, no fontconfig/xft,
nothing.

Abel

> > Of course in most cases the proper 'fix' is to have a boldtype
> > font. But creating a boldface font is not always that easy,
> > when one is talking about complex scripts that consists of
> > at least hundreds or thousands of glyphs; and it needs quite
> > some human horsepower as well, which may not be available for
> > newly available languages in F/OSS world.
> >
> > Abel
>
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