Re: About pangowin32...

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Mon, 16 Sep 2002, Tor Lillqvist wrote:

> Hans Breuer writes:
>  > It appears to still work this way but there needs to be a global alias 
>  > file named 'pango.aliases'. The format has changed as well but
>  > 
>  > sans = sans
>  > sans += "bitstream cyberbit"
>  > 
>  > does have the desired visual impact :-)
> 
> Aargh, thanks! I should have thought of that, to look for the
> functionality on a higher (non-Pango-backend-specific) level.. Will
> have to read the code to figure out what can be put in that file. (Can
> one for instance specify locale-specific mappings, in order to get
> locale-dependent fonts for the CJKV ideographs?)

Yes. This is basically the reason I removed alias support in the lowlevel 
module. Pango already handle lists of fontnames wherever you can specify 
a font. All that is needed is a simple way to say "the name foo really 
means this list of fonts".

Unfortunately I think work on implementing pango-global aliases were held 
up by other issues at some point. I still think it's the right thing 
though.

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