source: general/graphlib/fontconfig.xml@ 7985ac6c

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   "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
  %general-entities;

  <!ENTITY fontconfig-download-http
           "http://www.freedesktop.org/software/fontconfig/release/fontconfig-&fontconfig-version;.tar.bz2">
  <!ENTITY fontconfig-download-ftp  " ">
  <!ENTITY fontconfig-md5sum        "b5af5a423ee3b5cfc34846838963c058">
  <!ENTITY fontconfig-size          "1.5 MB">
  <!ENTITY fontconfig-buildsize     "14 MB (with tests)">
  <!ENTITY fontconfig-time          "0.4 SBU (with tests)">
]>

<sect1 id="fontconfig" xreflabel="Fontconfig-&fontconfig-version;">
  <?dbhtml filename="fontconfig.html"?>

  <sect1info>
    <othername>$LastChangedBy$</othername>
    <date>$Date$</date>
  </sect1info>

  <title>Fontconfig-&fontconfig-version;</title>

  <indexterm zone="fontconfig">
    <primary sortas="a-Fontconfig">Fontconfig</primary>
  </indexterm>

  <sect2 role="package">
    <title>Introduction to Fontconfig</title>

    <para>
      The <application>Fontconfig</application> package contains
      a library and support programs used for configuring and
      customizing font access.
    </para>

    &lfs7a_checked;

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Package Information</bridgehead>
    <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (HTTP): <ulink url="&fontconfig-download-http;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download (FTP): <ulink url="&fontconfig-download-ftp;"/>
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download MD5 sum: &fontconfig-md5sum;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Download size: &fontconfig-size;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated disk space required: &fontconfig-buildsize;
        </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>
          Estimated build time: &fontconfig-time;
        </para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Fontconfig Dependencies</bridgehead>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Required</bridgehead>
    <para role="required">
      <xref linkend="freetype2"/>
    </para>

    <bridgehead renderas="sect4">Optional</bridgehead>
    <para role="optional">
      <xref linkend="docbook-utils"/> and
      <xref linkend="libxml2"/>,
      <xref linkend="texlive"/> (or <xref linkend="tl-installer"/>)
    </para>

    <note>
      <para>
        If you have <application>DocBook Utils</application> installed and
        you remove the <parameter>--disable-docs</parameter> parameter from
        the <command>configure</command> command below, you must have
        <xref linkend="perl-sgmlspm"/> and <xref linkend="texlive"/> installed
        also, or the <application>Fontconfig</application> build will fail.
      </para>
    </note>

    <para condition="html" role="usernotes">User Notes:
      <ulink url='&blfs-wiki;/Fontconfig'/>
    </para>
  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="installation">
    <title>Installation of Fontconfig</title>

    <para>
      Install <application>Fontconfig</application> by running the following
      commands:
    </para>

<screen><userinput>./configure --prefix=/usr        \
            --sysconfdir=/etc    \
            --localstatedir=/var \
            --disable-docs       \
            --docdir=/usr/share/doc/fontconfig-&fontconfig-version; &amp;&amp;
make</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      To test the results, issue: <command>make check</command>.
    </para>

    <para>
      Now, as the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>make install</userinput></screen>

    <para>
      If you did not remove the <parameter>--disable-docs</parameter>
      parameter from the <command>configure</command> command, you can install
      the pre-generated documentation by using the following commands as the
      <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user:
    </para>

<screen role="root"><userinput>install -v -dm755 \
        /usr/share/{man/man{3,5},doc/fontconfig-&fontconfig-version;/fontconfig-devel} &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 fc-*/*.1         /usr/share/man/man1 &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 doc/*.3          /usr/share/man/man3 &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 doc/fonts-conf.5 /usr/share/man/man5 &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 doc/fontconfig-devel/* \
                                  /usr/share/doc/fontconfig-&fontconfig-version;/fontconfig-devel &amp;&amp;
install -v -m644 doc/*.{pdf,sgml,txt,html} \
                                  /usr/share/doc/fontconfig-&fontconfig-version;</userinput></screen>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="commands">
    <title>Command Explanations</title>

    <para>
      <parameter>--disable-docs</parameter>: This switch avoids building the
      documentation (the release tarball includes pre-generated
      documentation).
    </para>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="configuration">
    <title>Configuring Fontconfig</title>

    <sect3 id="fontconfig-config">
      <title>Config Files</title>

      <para>
        <filename>
          /etc/fonts/*,
          /etc/fonts/conf.d/* and
          /usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/*
        </filename>
      </para>

      <indexterm zone="fontconfig fontconfig-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-fonts">/etc/fonts/*</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="fontconfig fontconfig-config">
        <primary sortas="e-etc-fonts-conf.d">/etc/fonts/conf.d/*</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="fontconfig fontconfig-config">
        <primary sortas="e-usr-share-fontconfig-conf.avail">/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail/*</primary>
      </indexterm>

    </sect3>

    <sect3>
      <title>Configuration Information</title>

      <para>
        The main configuration file for <application>Fontconfig</application> is
        <filename>/etc/fonts/fonts.conf</filename>. Generally you do not want
        to edit this file. It will also read <filename>/etc/fonts/local.conf</filename>
        and any files in <filename class="directory">/etc/fonts/conf.d</filename>.
        To put a new font directory in the configuration, create
        (or update) the <filename>/etc/fonts/local.conf</filename> file with your
        local information or add a new file in
        <filename class="directory">/etc/fonts/conf.d</filename>. The default
        location of fonts in <application>Fontconfig</application> is:
      </para>

      <itemizedlist spacing="compact">
        <listitem>
          <para>/usr/share/fonts</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>~/.local/share/fonts</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>~/.fonts <emphasis>(this is now deprecated, but for the moment
          it still works)</emphasis></para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>

      <para>
        <application>Fontconfig</application> also ships many example
        configuration files in the
        <filename class="directory">/usr/share/fontconfig/conf.avail</filename>
        directory. Symlinking specific files to
        <filename class="directory">/etc/fonts/conf.d</filename>
        will enable them. The default setup is generally good enough for
        most users. See <filename>/etc/fonts/conf.d/README</filename>
        for a description of the configuration files.
      </para>

      <indexterm zone="fontconfig fontconfig-config">
        <primary sortas="e-usr-share-fonts">/usr/share/fonts</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <indexterm zone="fontconfig fontconfig-config">
        <primary sortas="e-AA.fonts">~/.fonts</primary>
      </indexterm>

      <para>
        More information about configuring <application>Fontconfig</application>
        can be found in the user's manual in <ulink
        url="file:///usr/share/doc/fontconfig-&fontconfig-version;/fontconfig-user.html"/>
      </para>

    </sect3>

  </sect2>

  <sect2 role="content">
    <title>Contents</title>

    <segmentedlist>
      <segtitle>Installed Programs</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Library</segtitle>
      <segtitle>Installed Directories</segtitle>

      <seglistitem>
        <seg>
          fc-cache, fc-cat, fc-list, fc-match, fc-pattern, fc-query,
          fc-scan and fc-validate
        </seg>
        <seg>
          libfontconfig.so
        </seg>
        <seg>
          /etc/fonts,
          /usr/include/fontconfig,
          /usr/share/doc/fontconfig-&fontconfig-version;,
          /usr/share/fontconfig,
          /usr/share/xml/fontconfig and
          /var/cache/fontconfig
        </seg>
      </seglistitem>
    </segmentedlist>

    <variablelist>
      <bridgehead renderas="sect3">Short Descriptions</bridgehead>
      <?dbfo list-presentation="list"?>
      <?dbhtml list-presentation="table"?>

      <varlistentry id="fc-cache">
        <term><command>fc-cache</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to create font information caches.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontconfig fc-cache">
            <primary sortas="b-fc-cache">fc-cache</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fc-cat">
        <term><command>fc-cat</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to read font information caches.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontconfig fc-cat">
            <primary sortas="b-fc-cat">fc-cat</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fc-list">
        <term><command>fc-list</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to create font lists.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontconfig fc-list">
            <primary sortas="b-fc-list">fc-list</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fc-match">
        <term><command>fc-match</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to match available fonts, or find fonts that match
            a given pattern.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontconfig fc-match">
            <primary sortas="b-fc-match">fc-match</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fc-pattern">
        <term><command>fc-pattern</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to parse pattern (empty pattern by default) and show
            the parsed result.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontconfig fc-pattern">
            <primary sortas="b-fc-pattern">fc-pattern</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fc-query">
        <term><command>fc-query</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to query fonts files and print resulting patterns.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontconfig fc-query">
            <primary sortas="b-fc-query">fc-query</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fc-scan">
        <term><command>fc-scan</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to scan font files and directories, and print resulting
            patterns.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontconfig fc-scan">
            <primary sortas="b-fc-scan">fc-scan</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="fc-validate">
        <term><command>fc-validate</command></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            is used to validate font files.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontconfig fc-validate">
            <primary sortas="b-fc-validate">fc-validate</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

      <varlistentry id="libfontconfig">
        <term><filename class="libraryfile">libfontconfig.so</filename></term>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            contains functions used by the <application>Fontconfig</application>
            programs and also by other programs to configure or customize font
            access.
          </para>
          <indexterm zone="fontconfig libfontconfig">
            <primary sortas="c-libfontconfig">libfontconfig.so</primary>
          </indexterm>
        </listitem>
      </varlistentry>

    </variablelist>

  </sect2>

</sect1>