Changeset fc07c4b for x

Timestamp:

11/29/2023 01:43:20 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:

690b50d

Parents:

b52945a

git-author:

Ken Moffat <ken@…> (11/29/2023 01:28:28 AM)

git-committer:

Ken Moffat <ken@…> (11/29/2023 01:43:20 AM)

Message:

tuningfonts -

Mention what actually happens with synthetic changes.

File:

• x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

x/installing/tuning-fontconfig.xml

@@ -64 +64 @@
       <listitem>
         <para><xref linkend="disabling-bitmap-fonts"/></para>
+      </listitem>
+      <listitem>
+        <para><xref linkend="synthetic-changes"/></para>
       </listitem>
       <listitem>
@@ -580 +583 @@
 &lt;/fontconfig&gt;</literal>
 EOF</userinput></screen>
+
+  </sect2>
+
+  <sect2 role="configuration" id="synthetic-changes" xreflabel="Synthetic changes">
+  <title>Synthetic changes</title>
+
+  <para>
+    In <filename>90-synthetic.conf</filename> there are examples of applying
+    synthetic slanting and emboldening to a font. The synthetic emboldening can
+    be applied to a visibly faint font, but the results are not always as
+    expected: With just the embolden, <application>epiphany</application> showed
+    darker font, <application>firefox</application> did not - so although
+    <application>cairo</application> is now used by
+    <application>firefox</application> the comment about setting Weight is still
+    valid. But setting both, <application>epiphany</application> will show bold text
+    by default, but heavy text if markup for bold is used. In both cases, neither
+    <application>libreOffice</application> nor <application>falkon</application>
+    showed bolder text.
+  </para>
 
   </sect2>
@@ -1043 +1065 @@
       Libreoffice: Tests using English text with an old Japanese font (HanaMinA)
       which supports several European languages but had only one weight and no
-      italics or slant showed that although <application>Libreoffice</application>
+      italics or slant showed that although <application>libreoffice</application>
       uses fontconfig to find the font, it created its own bold or slanted text.
       It is not clear if it will do the same where a font actually has bold weight
-      or an italic face. Also, documentation shows that Libreoffice has its own
+      or an italic face. Also, documentation shows that libreoffice has its own
       substitution rules for when a codepoint is not found in the selected font,
       but is unclear if those rules apply on Linux using fontconfig.