[Konsole-devel] KDE Monospace font

[Robert Knight]

Hello,

> Can anyone explain to me how and where this mapping is defined?

The mapping is done by a library called fontconfig.  Essentially it
takes a list of requirements (eg. font called "monospace" and with a
"bold" style, which supports the character that Konsole is attempting
to draw) and finds the closest match amongst the available fonts.

Monospace is a generic name for the user's preferred fixed-width font.
 A list of names of real fonts are bound to the monospace name in
priority order.  When you ask for 'Monospace', as I understand it, the
first one from that list which matches the character and style
requirements is picked.

Some information on how the font matching works can be found here:
http://fontconfig.org/fontconfig-user.html

On my system, the supplied rules which determine the actual fonts
which will match the "Monospace" name can be found in:

/etc/fonts and /etc/fonts/conf.d

/etc/fonts/conf.avail/README explains the order in which the various
configuration files are processed.

Regards,
Robert.



On 07/08/07, tandem22x <vajkonny at t-online.de> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> When I choose the font Monospace Bold for the KDE konsole, i found out
> that this font is mapped to different ttf-files for different alphabets:
>
> Latin: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/DejaVuSansMono-Bold.ttf
> Japanese: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/ipag.ttf
> Arabic: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/terafikb.ttf
> Hindi: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/Gargi_1.7.ttf
> Armenian:/usr/share/fonts/truetype/FreeMono.ttf
> Georgian: /usr/share/fonts/truetype/FreeMonoBold.ttf
>
> Can anyone explain to me how and where this mapping is defined? How can
> I add a new ttf-font into the Monospace face, let's say for example for
> the Burmese script in the unicode range between U+1000 and U+1100?
>
> Regards,
> H.
>
>
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