Subject: Re: distribution of fonts with AW; structure of font path
From: Pierre Abbat (phma@oltronics.net)
Date: Thu Sep 28 2000 - 06:52:00 CDT
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Vlad Harchev wrote:
>I would like to propose extensions to font search paths used by AW.
> Currently, AW searches opens fonts.dir in each directory in font path and
> registers all fonts in that directory. I propose to slightly extend AW's
> behaviour: after reading fonts in the given directory, AW should try to open
> fonts.dir in subdirectory of that directory, named after current encoding
> name. E.g. if name of current encoding is CP1251 and /AbiSuite/fonts is in
> AW's font search path, AW will (as it always did) open
> /AbiSuite/fonts/fonts.dir, and after that (as I propose) it should try to
> open /AbiSuite/fonts/CP1251/fonts.dir.
<snip>
> What do you think about this? If you accept it, I will include support for
> this in my patch.
Fontastic!
phma
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