Re: OpenType version of the lmodern fonts
paivakil@gmail.com (Mahesh T. Pai) wrote:
> The TrueType spec is a subset of the OpenType spec.
I'm a bit puzzled. I wouldn't if you had written that a .otf file can
contain a TrueType font, but you said instead that a .ttf file can
contain an OpenType font. Weird.
Basically, what I'd like to know is: if I ship the lmodern .otf files,
will TrueType-aware applications be able to use them, or do we have to
wait for OpenType-aware applications?
> I am not sure of the file extension part. AFAIK, the *nices and
> specifically, X does not care for file extensions, does it? (you need
Usually, file extensions don't matter too much in the Unix world but
they are still often used to make file types easily recognizable to
humans (e.g., .c, .o, .h, .so, .tar, .gz, .bz2, and .deb are common
well-known extensions used in the Unix world).
> to crate the font directory, create the fonts.cache files in the
> concerned directory and add the font path to X's default search path.
More or less (there is also fonts.dir, fonts.alias, fonts.scale...).
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Florent
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