Wanted: to allow web authors to access Nimbus Sans L Condensed on Linux browsers, this being the only condensed sans font family installed on every Linux system. Solution 1: A distribution can hack the Nimbus Sans L Condensed fonts to have family "Nimbus Sans L Condensed", instead of "Nimbus Sans L" with style "Condensed". This is allowed by the licence. The solution is effective but ad hoc and it requires cooperation from all the distributions. Solution 2: Browsers can implement the font-stretch feature of css. No current browser does this and Firefox developers in particular seem to have no interest. A clean general solution, but unrealistic unless IE8 implements font-stretch, in which case the other browsers will follow. Solution 3: Create a fontconfig alias that would create a virtual font-family "Nimbus Sans L Condensed". Ad hoc, but easier to sell to distributions than hacked font files. I''d be grateful if someone familiar with fonts.conf syntax could provide a suitable alias definition. I know from experience that such alias definitions are non-trivial. See the thread I started here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2006-November/002523.html Bob T.
Le jeudi 06 mars 2008 ? 11:11 -0500, Bob Tennent a ?crit :> Solution 2: Browsers can implement the font-stretch feature of css. No > current browser does this and Firefox developers in particular seem to > have no interest. A clean general solution, but unrealistic unless IE8 > implements font-stretch, in which case the other browsers will follow.The webkit guys are working on it http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12530 What''s unrealistic is expecting IE to lead the CSS support drive> Solution 3: Create a fontconfig alias that would create a virtual > font-family "Nimbus Sans L Condensed". Ad hoc, but easier to sell to > distributions than hacked font files.So you say. It''s really not much better than the Mandriva hack in 1., and I would argue against such a hack Fedora-side. This is based both on the general uglyness of it and experience on the unintended side-effects of doing deep fontconfig vodoo (Yes I played with Condensed aliases in fontconfig before. No I don''t think they are a good idea now) -- Nicolas Mailhot -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 197 bytes Desc: Ceci est une partie de message =?ISO-8859-1?Q?num=E9riquement?= =?ISO-8859-1?Q?_sign=E9e?Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20080306/a0e34904/attachment.pgp
On 2008/03/06 11:11 (GMT-0500) Bob Tennent apparently typed:> Wanted: to allow web authors to access Nimbus Sans L Condensed on Linux > browsers, this being the only condensed sans font family installed on > every Linux system.To be clear, "Nimbus Sans L Condensed" is a font family name available only on some Linux systems. The rest of them have a condensed (75% width) variant of a font family named "Nimbus Sans L". It is only the latter that currently is inaccessible via CSS. -- "Let us not love with words or in talk only. Let us love by what we do." 1 John 3:18 NLV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/