Re: Pango global font aliases

[Keith Packard <keithp keithp com>]

Around 22 o'clock on Sep 8, Alex Larsson wrote:

> I'm not sure how this integrates with the work keith mentioned. Can we use 
> the XFree fontmatch stuff on win32, or do we just push it into the Xft and 
> FT2 backends.

The XFree fontmatch stuff already manages both FreeType and core X font 
names; adding another scheme should be pretty easy.  I anticipate also 
managing print-resident fonts with this stuff; the goal is to give the 
system a single point for font configuration.

The current Xft matching stuff is modular enough to allow the font 
substitution mechanism to be used along with a different font matching 
stuff, that might be useful on Windows where applications have little 
control over font selection.

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