Changeset f98db52 for x/installing
- Timestamp:
- 11/25/2023 02:20:45 AM (10 months ago)
- Branches:
- 12.1, 12.2, gimp3, ken/TL2024, ken/tuningfonts, lazarus, plabs/newcss, python3.11, rahul/power-profiles-daemon, trunk, xry111/for-12.3, xry111/llvm18, xry111/spidermonkey128
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- 9fc45066
- Parents:
- 9d8ea23
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x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml
r9d8ea23 rf98db52 421 421 character-cell grid but at the cost of its proper shape. 422 422 423 hintmedium: poorly documented, maybe a synonym for hintfull.423 hintmedium: is reported to be broken. 424 424 hintslight is the default: - supposed to be more fuzzy but retains shape. 425 425 … … 443 443 444 444 <para> 445 You will now need to edit the file in your preferred editor. 446 </para> 445 You will now need to edit the file in your preferred editor. Many of the 446 different settings give very subtle differences and the results may differ 447 for some of the fonts you use. 448 </para> 449 450 <note> 451 <para> 452 Hinting, if enabled, is done in <application>FreeType</application>. 453 Since FreeType-2.7 the default TrueType interpreter is v40. The 454 original v35 hinter could be enabled by an environment variable, but 455 is only really appropriate to original Microsoft TTF fonts (Arial, etc). 456 The v38 hinter (Infinality) is not built by default and all the options 457 to tune it have been removed. For full details see <xref 458 linkend="subpixel-hinting"/> (Spoiler: there is NO sub-pixel hinting, 459 the code simply ignores <emphasis>all</emphasis> horizontal hinting 460 instructions. 461 </para> 462 </note> 447 463 448 464 <para> … … 845 861 </para> 846 862 863 <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="subpixel-hinting" 864 xreflabel="subpixel-hinting">subpixel-hinting</bridgehead> 865 866 <para>The documentation of the FreeType v40 interpreter at <ulink 867 url="https://freetype.org/freetype2/docs/hinting/subpixel-hinting.html">freetype 868 docs</ulink> 869 explains how the current hinter works, and why the previous (slow) Infinality 870 interpreter was replaced. 871 </para> 872 847 873 <bridgehead renderas="sect3" id="arch-fontconfig" 848 874 xreflabel="Fontconfig in the Arch wiki">Fontconfig in the Arch wiki</bridgehead>
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