Re: Default font: Transition from DejaVu to Noto
On Tue, Sep 12, 2023 at 09:19:26AM +0200, Gioele Barabucci wrote:
> On 12/09/23 08:24, Fabian Greffrath wrote:
> > the fonts-noto-core package installs a full pack of 268 (!) font files.
> > This is discussed in detail in #983291 [1].
>
> The issues is not that there are too many files, but that these files become
> extra entries in font pickers (1 entry for every ~3 files).
>
> Why not collapse all these font files into a few new font files using
> fontforge or a variant of nototools's merge_fonts.py?
You don't need to physically merge font files, fontconfig is fine with many
fonts sharing the same name. You can't then request a specific font, but
taking missing glyphs from others still works.
(Haven't looked at this in a while, would need to test.)
Meow!
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⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Latin: meow 4 characters, 4 columns, 4 bytes
⣾⠁⢠⠒⠀⣿⡁ Greek: μεου 4 characters, 4 columns, 8 bytes
⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ Runes: ᛗᛖᛟᚹ 4 characters, 4 columns, 12 bytes
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