Re: [e-users] font issue of e16

[Kim W. <ki...@wo...>]

Yasufumi Haga wrote:
> Hi all
> 
> I'm using the version 0.16.8.9-0.00 of e16 and "winter" theme, and trying
> to customise the fonts used in e16. 
> 
> I'm editing $HOME/.e16/fonts.cfg.ja which I copied there from
>   /usr/local/share/e16/themes/winter/fonts.cfg.ja
> to change the fonts. When I changed a font in the file, I followd the
> description in docs/README-0.16.8 to specify a font, and used two of the
> ways in it:
>   1) "<font name>/<size>", e.g. "Vera/8"
>   3) Fontconfig font names, e.g. "Luxi Sans-10:bold"
> Now I noticed that how it looked in the first way was really different than
> how it looked in the other way, though I used the same font in both ways.
> For example, when I specify a font in the first way for the menu font in
> "fonts.cfg.ja" like this:
>   font-menu     "VL-PGothic-Regular/8"
> the menu is shown like this:
>   http://homepage3.nifty.com/peterpan/x00/ss-strange.jpg
> and using the other way for the menu font like this:
>   font-menu       "VL PGothic-8:medium"
> it's shown like this:
>   http://homepage3.nifty.com/peterpan/x00/ss-normal.jpg
> What could make a difference between them?
> 
> I used "VL-PGothic-Regular.ttf" font located at /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType
> in this case, and fc-list command says the font is "VL PGothic,VL P$B%4%7%C%/(B:style=regular".
> I added "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType" to theme.ttfont_path in
> $HOME/.e16/e_config--0.0.cfg file like:
>   theme.ttfont_path = /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType:/usr/share/fonts/alias/TrueType
> to let e16 find the font.
> 
The strangeness may be caused by a change in the imlib2 font stuff 
(after 1.4.0), which I just backed out.

/Kim