Changeset e73a0309

Timestamp:

11/25/2023 02:51:02 AM (6 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:

f072b06f

Parents:

9fc45066

Message:

tuningfonts: How to find if a font has hinting.

Many older fonts, and even some currently-developed fonts such as
Junicode, lack hints. Before exploring hinting options it makes
sens to check that the font being used does indeed have hints.

Placed in 'Useful Commands' ahead of the Pango example, because
it is a plain fontconfig command.

File:

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

x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml

@@ -174 +174 @@
       :lang=en</command> shows Noto Sans Mono will be used, but if the lang is
       changed to 'ar' (arabic) DejaVu Sans will be used.
+    </para>
+
+    <para>
+      If you want to determine if a font file has hinting (many older fonts do not,
+      because it was patented) use <command>fc-query
+      <replaceable>/path/to/fontfile</replaceable> | grep 'fonthashint:'</command>:
+      which will report 'True(s)' or 'False(s)'.
     </para>