Fonts in XFree86

Juliusz Chroboczek, Juliusz.Chroboczek@ens.fr

14 February 2000

This version of XFree86 includes a number of improvements to the handling of fonts, including

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. Background and terminology

1.1. Characters and glyphs
1.2. Font files, fonts, and XLFD
1.3. Unicode

2. Unicode-encoded bitmap fonts

2.1. The Unicode `fixed' font
2.2. The ClearlyU Unicode font

3. Internationalisation of scalable font backends.

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. New font backends

4.1. New TrueType backends
4.2. Support for CID-keyed fonts

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