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diff --git a/fontconfig/doc/fontconfig-devel.sgml b/fontconfig/doc/fontconfig-devel.sgml index 891251f30..87339511c 100644 --- a/fontconfig/doc/fontconfig-devel.sgml +++ b/fontconfig/doc/fontconfig-devel.sgml @@ -30,9 +30,9 @@ documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting - documentation, and that the name of Keith Packard not be used in + documentation, and that the name of the author(s) not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without - specific, written prior permission. Keith Packard makes no + specific, written prior permission. The authors make no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. @@ -65,9 +65,9 @@ Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute, and sell this software and its documentation for any purpose is hereby granted without fee, provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in supporting -documentation, and that the name of Keith Packard not be used in +documentation, and that the name of the author(s) not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to distribution of the software without -specific, written prior permission. Keith Packard makes no +specific, written prior permission. The authors make no representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. </simpara><simpara> @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ which accepts font patterns and returns the nearest matching font. <sect2><title>FONT CONFIGURATION</title> <para> The configuration module consists of the FcConfig datatype, libexpat and -FcConfigParse which walks over an XML tree and ammends a configuration with +FcConfigParse which walks over an XML tree and amends a configuration with data found within. From an external perspective, configuration of the library consists of generating a valid XML tree and feeding that to FcConfigParse. The only other mechanism provided to applications for @@ -126,83 +126,83 @@ simplify and regularize font installation and customization. While font patterns may contain essentially any properties, there are some well known properties with associated types. Fontconfig uses some of these properties for font matching and font completion. Others are provided as a -convenience for the applications rendering mechanism. +convenience for the application's rendering mechanism. </para> <programlisting> Property Definitions - Property CPP Symbol Type Description + Property C Preprocessor Symbol Type Description ---------------------------------------------------- - family FC_FAMILY String Font family names - familylang FC_FAMILYLANG String Language cooresponding to - each family name - style FC_STYLE String Font style. Overrides weight - and slant - stylelang FC_STYLELANG String Language cooresponding to - each style name - fullname FC_FULLNAME String Font face full name where - different from family and - family + style - fullnamelang FC_FULLNAMELANG String Language cooresponding to - each fullname - slant FC_SLANT Int Italic, oblique or roman - weight FC_WEIGHT Int Light, medium, demibold, - bold or black - size FC_SIZE Double Point size - width FC_WIDTH Int Condensed, normal or expanded - aspect FC_ASPECT Double Stretches glyphs horizontally - before hinting - pixelsize FC_PIXEL_SIZE Double Pixel size - spacing FC_SPACING Int Proportional, dual-width, - monospace or charcell - foundry FC_FOUNDRY String Font foundry name - antialias FC_ANTIALIAS Bool Whether glyphs can be - antialiased - hinting FC_HINTING Bool Whether the rasterizer should - use hinting - hintstyle FC_HINT_STYLE Int Automatic hinting style - verticallayout FC_VERTICAL_LAYOUT Bool Use vertical layout - autohint FC_AUTOHINT Bool Use autohinter instead of - normal hinter - globaladvance FC_GLOBAL_ADVANCE Bool Use font global advance data - file FC_FILE String The filename holding the font - index FC_INDEX Int The index of the font within - the file - ftface FC_FT_FACE FT_Face Use the specified FreeType - face object - rasterizer FC_RASTERIZER String Which rasterizer is in use - outline FC_OUTLINE Bool Whether the glyphs are outlines - scalable FC_SCALABLE Bool Whether glyphs can be scaled - scale FC_SCALE Double Scale factor for point->pixel - conversions - dpi FC_DPI Double Target dots per inch - rgba FC_RGBA Int unknown, rgb, bgr, vrgb, - vbgr, none - subpixel geometry - lcdfilter FC_LCD_FILTER Int Type of LCD filter - minspace FC_MINSPACE Bool Eliminate leading from line - spacing - charset FC_CHARSET CharSet Unicode chars encoded by - the font - lang FC_LANG LangSet Set of RFC-3066-style - languages this font supports - fontversion FC_FONTVERSION Int Version number of the font - capability FC_CAPABILITY String List of layout capabilities in - the font - embolden FC_EMBOLDEN Bool Rasterizer should - synthetically embolden the font + family FC_FAMILY String Font family names + familylang FC_FAMILYLANG String Language corresponding to + each family name + style FC_STYLE String Font style. Overrides weight + and slant + stylelang FC_STYLELANG String Language corresponding to + each style name + fullname FC_FULLNAME String Font face full name where + different from family and + family + style + fullnamelang FC_FULLNAMELANG String Language corresponding to + each fullname + slant FC_SLANT Int Italic, oblique or roman + weight FC_WEIGHT Int Light, medium, demibold, + bold or black + size FC_SIZE Double Point size + width FC_WIDTH Int Condensed, normal or expanded + aspect FC_ASPECT Double Stretches glyphs horizontally + before hinting + pixelsize FC_PIXEL_SIZE Double Pixel size + spacing FC_SPACING Int Proportional, dual-width, + monospace or charcell + foundry FC_FOUNDRY String Font foundry name + antialias FC_ANTIALIAS Bool Whether glyphs can be + antialiased + hinting FC_HINTING Bool Whether the rasterizer should + use hinting + hintstyle FC_HINT_STYLE Int Automatic hinting style + verticallayout FC_VERTICAL_LAYOUT Bool Use vertical layout + autohint FC_AUTOHINT Bool Use autohinter instead of + normal hinter + globaladvance FC_GLOBAL_ADVANCE Bool Use font global advance data + file FC_FILE String The filename holding the font + index FC_INDEX Int The index of the font within + the file + ftface FC_FT_FACE FT_Face Use the specified FreeType + face object + rasterizer FC_RASTERIZER String Which rasterizer is in use + outline FC_OUTLINE Bool Whether the glyphs are outlines + scalable FC_SCALABLE Bool Whether glyphs can be scaled + scale FC_SCALE Double Scale factor for point->pixel + conversions + dpi FC_DPI Double Target dots per inch + rgba FC_RGBA Int unknown, rgb, bgr, vrgb, + vbgr, none - subpixel geometry + lcdfilter FC_LCD_FILTER Int Type of LCD filter + minspace FC_MINSPACE Bool Eliminate leading from line + spacing + charset FC_CHARSET CharSet Unicode chars encoded by + the font + lang FC_LANG LangSet Set of RFC-3066-style + languages this font supports + fontversion FC_FONTVERSION Int Version number of the font + capability FC_CAPABILITY String List of layout capabilities in + the font + embolden FC_EMBOLDEN Bool Rasterizer should + synthetically embolden the font </programlisting> </sect2> </sect1> <sect1><title>Datatypes</title> <para> -Fontconfig uses abstract datatypes to hide internal implementation details +Fontconfig uses abstract data types to hide internal implementation details for most data structures. A few structures are exposed where appropriate. </para> <sect2><title>FcChar8, FcChar16, FcChar32, FcBool</title> <para> -These are primitive datatypes; the FcChar* types hold precisely the number +These are primitive data types; the FcChar* types hold precisely the number of bits stated (if supported by the C implementation). FcBool holds -one of two CPP symbols: FcFalse or FcTrue. +one of two C preprocessor symbols: FcFalse or FcTrue. </para> </sect2> <sect2><title>FcMatrix</title> @@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ A small set of matrix operations are provided to manipulate these. </sect2> <sect2><title>FcCharSet</title> <para> -An FcCharSet is an abstract type that holds the set of encoded unicode chars +An FcCharSet is an abstract type that holds the set of encoded Unicode chars in a font. Operations to build and compare these sets are provided. </para> </sect2> @@ -378,7 +378,7 @@ public entry points that need global data can take an optional FcConfig* argument; passing 0 uses the default configuration. FcConfig objects hold two sets of fonts, the first contains those specified by the configuration, the second set holds those added by the application at run-time. Interfaces -that need to reference a particulat set use one of the FcSetName enumerated +that need to reference a particular set use one of the FcSetName enumerated values. </para> </sect2> @@ -401,13 +401,13 @@ Used as a return type for functions manipulating FcPattern objects. FcResultTypeMismatch Object exists, but the type doesn't match FcResultNoId Object exists, but has fewer values than specified - FcResultOutOfMemory Malloc failed + FcResultOutOfMemory malloc failed </programlisting> </para> </sect2> <sect2><title>FcAtomic</title> <para> -Used for locking access to config files. Provides a safe way to update +Used for locking access to configuration files. Provides a safe way to update configuration files. </para> </sect2> @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ included 'fc-cache' program generally suffices for all of that. </sect1> <sect1><title>FUNCTIONS</title> <para> -These are grouped by functionality, often using the main datatype being +These are grouped by functionality, often using the main data type being manipulated. </para> <sect2><title>Initialization</title> @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ results of listing available fonts. <sect2><title>FcObjectSet</title> <para> An FcObjectSet holds a list of pattern property names; it is used to -indiciate which properties are to be returned in the patterns from +indicate which properties are to be returned in the patterns from FcFontList. </para> &fcobjectset; @@ -475,7 +475,7 @@ typechecking, although that depends on careful programming. </sect2> <sect2><title>FcCharSet</title> <para> -An FcCharSet is a boolean array indicating a set of unicode chars. Those +An FcCharSet is a boolean array indicating a set of Unicode chars. Those associated with a font are marked constant and cannot be edited. FcCharSets may be reference counted internally to reduce memory consumption; this may be visible to applications as the result of FcCharSetCopy may @@ -509,7 +509,7 @@ any function using the data within an FcConfig. </sect2> <sect2><title>FcObjectType</title> <para> -Provides for applcation-specified font name object types so that new +Provides for application-specified font name object types so that new pattern elements can be generated from font names. </para> &fcobjecttype; @@ -532,9 +532,9 @@ accurate CharSet for applications. </sect2> <sect2><title>FcAtomic</title> <para> -These functions provide a safe way to update config files, allowing ongoing -reading of the old config file while locked for writing and ensuring that a -consistent and complete version of the config file is always available. +These functions provide a safe way to update configuration files, allowing ongoing +reading of the old configuration file while locked for writing and ensuring that a +consistent and complete version of the configuration file is always available. </para> &fcatomic; </sect2> |