Chris's Wiki :: blog/unix/XFontTypes Commentshttps://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/unix/XFontTypes?atomcommentsDWiki2016-02-11T16:35:09ZRecent comments in Chris's Wiki :: blog/unix/XFontTypes.By Chris Siebenmann on /blog/unix/XFontTypestag:CSpace:blog/unix/XFontTypes:e3f357723b17fb77131668d7dd46c9a23ecff609Chris Siebenmann<div class="wikitext"><p>As far as I know, FreeType/XFT remains the dominant underlying
font technology for things like Pango; <a href="https://developer.gnome.org/pango/stable/pango-Xft-Fonts-and-Rendering.html">this Pango documentation</a>
describes XFT as the default backend. Even Cairo appears to default to
using FreeType/XFT as its normal font backend on Unix. As part of this
it appears that Pango inherits the normal XFT font configuration methods,
although I wouldn't be surprised if it overrides hinting instructions
at least some of the time.</p>
</div>2016-02-11T16:35:09ZFrom 193.219.181.217 on /blog/unix/XFontTypestag:CSpace:blog/unix/XFontTypes:4dc3459de54cc15a24024d4871f0cabb55de2782From 193.219.181.217<div class="wikitext"><p>While this is an old post, it's a useful introduction to fonts in X, and it would be nice to update it somewhat. In particular, Xft is only one of several font drawing libraries, and a somewhat limited one; most "larger" toolkits render through Pango instead, so they get fancier features like better RTL support, better font fallback, etc.</p>
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