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72 1.1.1.2 mrg >FUNCTIONAL OVERVIEW</A
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75 1.1 mrg >Fontconfig contains two essential modules, the configuration module which
76 1.1 mrg builds an internal configuration from XML files and the matching module
77 1.1 mrg which accepts font patterns and returns the nearest matching font.
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85 1.1.1.2 mrg >FONT CONFIGURATION</A
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88 1.1 mrg >The configuration module consists of the FcConfig datatype, libexpat and
89 1.1.1.3 mrg FcConfigParse which walks over an XML tree and amends a configuration with
90 1.1 mrg data found within. From an external perspective, configuration of the
91 1.1 mrg library consists of generating a valid XML tree and feeding that to
92 1.1 mrg FcConfigParse. The only other mechanism provided to applications for
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97 1.1 mrg >The intent is to make font configurations relatively static, and shared by
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100 1.1 mrg XML was chosen as a configuration file format because it provides a format
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102 1.1 mrg structure and syntax.
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105 1.1 mrg >Font configuration is separate from font matching; applications needing to
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107 1.1 mrg perform private matching. The intent is to permit applications to pick and
108 1.1 mrg choose appropriate functionality from the library instead of forcing them to
109 1.1 mrg choose between this library and a private configuration mechanism. The hope
110 1.1 mrg is that this will ensure that configuration of fonts for all applications
111 1.1 mrg can be centralized in one place. Centralizing font configuration will
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121 1.1.1.2 mrg >FONT PROPERTIES</A
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124 1.1 mrg >While font patterns may contain essentially any properties, there are some
125 1.1 mrg well known properties with associated types. Fontconfig uses some of these
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137 1.1 mrg > Property Definitions
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139 1.1.1.3 mrg Property C Preprocessor Symbol Type Description
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141 1.1.1.3 mrg family FC_FAMILY String Font family names
142 1.1.1.3 mrg familylang FC_FAMILYLANG String Language corresponding to
143 1.1.1.3 mrg each family name
144 1.1.1.3 mrg style FC_STYLE String Font style. Overrides weight
145 1.1.1.3 mrg and slant
146 1.1.1.3 mrg stylelang FC_STYLELANG String Language corresponding to
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148 1.1.1.3 mrg fullname FC_FULLNAME String Font face full name where
149 1.1.1.3 mrg different from family and
150 1.1.1.3 mrg family + style
151 1.1.1.3 mrg fullnamelang FC_FULLNAMELANG String Language corresponding to
152 1.1.1.3 mrg each fullname
153 1.1.1.3 mrg slant FC_SLANT Int Italic, oblique or roman
154 1.1.1.3 mrg weight FC_WEIGHT Int Light, medium, demibold,
155 1.1.1.3 mrg bold or black
156 1.1.1.3 mrg size FC_SIZE Double Point size
157 1.1.1.3 mrg width FC_WIDTH Int Condensed, normal or expanded
158 1.1.1.3 mrg aspect FC_ASPECT Double Stretches glyphs horizontally
159 1.1.1.3 mrg before hinting
160 1.1.1.3 mrg pixelsize FC_PIXEL_SIZE Double Pixel size
161 1.1.1.3 mrg spacing FC_SPACING Int Proportional, dual-width,
162 1.1.1.3 mrg monospace or charcell
163 1.1.1.3 mrg foundry FC_FOUNDRY String Font foundry name
164 1.1.1.3 mrg antialias FC_ANTIALIAS Bool Whether glyphs can be
165 1.1.1.3 mrg antialiased
166 1.1.1.3 mrg hinting FC_HINTING Bool Whether the rasterizer should
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168 1.1.1.3 mrg hintstyle FC_HINT_STYLE Int Automatic hinting style
169 1.1.1.3 mrg verticallayout FC_VERTICAL_LAYOUT Bool Use vertical layout
170 1.1.1.3 mrg autohint FC_AUTOHINT Bool Use autohinter instead of
171 1.1.1.3 mrg normal hinter
172 1.1.1.3 mrg globaladvance FC_GLOBAL_ADVANCE Bool Use font global advance data (deprecated)
173 1.1.1.3 mrg file FC_FILE String The filename holding the font
174 1.1.1.3 mrg index FC_INDEX Int The index of the font within
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176 1.1.1.3 mrg ftface FC_FT_FACE FT_Face Use the specified FreeType
177 1.1.1.3 mrg face object
178 1.1.1.5 mrg rasterizer FC_RASTERIZER String Which rasterizer is in use (deprecated)
179 1.1.1.3 mrg outline FC_OUTLINE Bool Whether the glyphs are outlines
180 1.1.1.3 mrg scalable FC_SCALABLE Bool Whether glyphs can be scaled
181 1.1.1.3 mrg scale FC_SCALE Double Scale factor for point->pixel
182 1.1.1.6 mrg conversions (deprecated)
183 1.1.1.6 mrg symbol FC_SYMBOL Bool Whether font uses MS symbol-font encoding
184 1.1.1.6 mrg color FC_COLOR Bool Whether any glyphs have color
185 1.1.1.3 mrg dpi FC_DPI Double Target dots per inch
186 1.1.1.3 mrg rgba FC_RGBA Int unknown, rgb, bgr, vrgb,
187 1.1.1.3 mrg vbgr, none - subpixel geometry
188 1.1.1.3 mrg lcdfilter FC_LCD_FILTER Int Type of LCD filter
189 1.1.1.3 mrg minspace FC_MINSPACE Bool Eliminate leading from line
190 1.1.1.3 mrg spacing
191 1.1.1.3 mrg charset FC_CHARSET CharSet Unicode chars encoded by
192 1.1.1.3 mrg the font
193 1.1.1.3 mrg lang FC_LANG LangSet Set of RFC-3066-style
194 1.1.1.3 mrg languages this font supports
195 1.1.1.3 mrg fontversion FC_FONTVERSION Int Version number of the font
196 1.1.1.3 mrg capability FC_CAPABILITY String List of layout capabilities in
197 1.1.1.3 mrg the font
198 1.1.1.6 mrg fontformat FC_FONTFORMAT String String name of the font format
199 1.1.1.3 mrg embolden FC_EMBOLDEN Bool Rasterizer should
200 1.1.1.3 mrg synthetically embolden the font
201 1.1.1.6 mrg embeddedbitmap FC_EMBEDDED_BITMAP Bool Use the embedded bitmap instead
202 1.1.1.6 mrg of the outline
203 1.1.1.6 mrg decorative FC_DECORATIVE Bool Whether the style is a decorative
204 1.1.1.6 mrg variant
205 1.1.1.4 mrg fontfeatures FC_FONT_FEATURES String List of extra feature tags in
206 1.1.1.4 mrg OpenType to be enabled
207 1.1.1.3 mrg namelang FC_NAMELANG String Language name to be used for the
208 1.1.1.3 mrg default value of familylang,
209 1.1.1.3 mrg stylelang and fullnamelang
210 1.1.1.4 mrg prgname FC_PRGNAME String Name of the running program
211 1.1.1.4 mrg hash FC_HASH String SHA256 hash value of the font data
212 1.1.1.6 mrg with "sha256:" prefix (deprecated)
213 1.1.1.4 mrg postscriptname FC_POSTSCRIPT_NAME String Font name in PostScript
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