Re: About pangowin32...

[Darren Chuck <darren halfkilo com>]

Alexander Larsson wrote:

> 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.
>
>  
So How does Pango recognize fonts in version 1.0.4? by a global alias 
file or by some other configuration file?

It uses XftConfig, under X Render extension (GDK_USE_XFT=1) and 
/etc/pango/pangox.aliases in traditional X. In this way pango does very 
well but when I move to win32 it gives me no other fonts besides Arial.

Extra information is reported in here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/gimpwin-dev/message/2671

Moreover, there's something (seems to be) outdated in pango soucre, like 
those in examples directory. Should we have a clean up?

regards,
--Darren