On 6/6/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Soumyadip Modak</b> <<a href="mailto:soumyadip.modak@gmail.com">soumyadip.modak@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div>Hi, <br>I maintain ttf-indic-fonts for the Debian Indic team (<a href="http://debian-in.alioth.debian.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://debian-in.alioth.debian.org</a>
).
A major problem I've been facing is to make sure that fonts from
ttf-indic-fonts is used in preference to ttf-freefonts for Indian
languages. I personally am using custom .fonts.conf files. One obvious
solution would be to put such fonts.conf files in /etc/fonts/conf.d
directory, but not being very familiar with fontconfig, I wonder if
there is any specific way to make fontconfig use a particular
fonts.conf for a particular locale ? Or will just putting in the
appropriate config files in /etc/fonts/conf.d work? Can other font
packagers please guide me on this problem ?
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Assuming both fonts provide the same FontNames and you have some (not
purely subjective) grounds for considering your font superior, just
register it with defoma using a higher priority.
fontconfig.defoma will then make sure the symlinks in
/var/lib/defoma/fontconfig.d/ point to your version.<br>
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(defoma has lots of faults, but it does handle font conflicts fairly well)<br>
<br></div>-- <br> - Gus