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Re: [Undertype-users] How does fotmatrix work?

Emmanuel Viaud · 

Le Fri, 11 Sep 2009 19:01:03 -0400
komputes <[email protected]> a écrit

> I really like fontmatrix but I have a question about what happens (in
> the back end) when I activate a font.
> 
> So lets say i have a new font called foo in
> /home/me/stuff/fonts/bob.ttf. I point Fonmatrix to that path, and it
> shows me the new font - yay! Then when I put a checkmark it
> aliases/symlinks the font in ~/.fontmatrix. The part I don't
> understand is how the system now knows about and can use this font
> without it being installed in a valid font dir like ~/.fonts
> or /usr/share/fonts

Hi.

Fontconfig (the tool used to manage fonts for applications on
Linux/*BSD/...) uses user-level configuration files (~/.fonts.conf)
to set many parameters, including font directories. Fontmatrix creates
(or modifies if the file already exists?) such a file to add
~/.fontmatrix to the font directory list. As an exemple, my
~/.fonts.conf contains:

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
    <dir>/home/manu/.Fontmatrix/Activated</dir>
</fontconfig>

Hope this helps.

Best regards,
Emmanuel

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