Fonts in XFree86
Juliusz Chroboczek, Juliusz.Chroboczek@ens.fr
5 March 2000
XFree86 contains a number of improvements related to fonts, including
- inclusion of new fonts;
- internationalisation of the scalable font backends (Type 1, Speedo,
and TrueType);
- support for TrueType fonts;
- support for CID-keyed fonts.
This document describes these improvements. It does not attempt to
describe the standard support for fonts in X11; the reader is referred
to the X(1), Xserver(1), and mkfontdir(1) manpages.
- 1.1. Characters and glyphs
- 1.2. Font files, fonts, and XLFD
- 1.3. Unicode
- 2.1. Bitmap fonts
- 2.2. Scalable fonts
- 3.1. The `fontenc' layer
- 3.2. Backend-specific notes about fontenc
- 3.3. Format of encodings directory files
- 3.4. Format of encoding files
- 3.5. Using symbol fonts
- 3.6. Using badly encoded font files
- 4.1. New TrueType backends
- 4.2. Support for CID-keyed fonts
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