Changeset 95aa2bf for x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml

Timestamp:

12/07/2023 09:28:20 AM (7 months ago)

Author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…>

Branches:

12.1, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, trunk, xry111/llvm18

Children:

da49ff03

Parents:

69c8f9fa

Message:

tuningfonts:

Explain that some recent fonts have TTF files with hinting, and
OTF files without. Expand the comment in TTF-and-OTF-fonts to
explain why OTF should be preferred, and link to previous page
for why hinting can be undesirable or unusable.

File:

• x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml (modified) (1 diff)

x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml

@@ -201 +201 @@
       because it was patented) use <command>fc-query
       <replaceable>/path/to/fontfile</replaceable> | grep 'fonthashint:'</command>:
-      which will report 'True(s)' or 'False(s)'.
+      which will report 'True(s)' or 'False(s)'. Some recent fonts with both TTF
+      and OTF versions will have hinting in the TTF files.
     </para>