Re: fonts

[Colin Walters <walters@debian.org>]

On Wed, 2003-03-19 at 08:34, Anton Zinoviev wrote:

> Defoma is a connector between font-providing packages and font-using
> packages.  Fontconfig is simply one of the font-using applications.

It's not quite that simple.  There is definitely some duplication of
functionality.  I described some of that in my other mails.

> Another more flexible aproach is to add support for Defoma in
> Fontconfig.  It is not only the invoking of fc-cache.  One may want
> also to tweak the configuration file in /etc/fonts/ in order to
> provide better support for virtual fonts like Sans and Mono.

Yeah.  I'll try to sit down and learn Defoma here soon.