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Diffstat (limited to 'fontconfig/doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | fontconfig/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml | 21 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/fontconfig/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml b/fontconfig/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml index 217feb97a..d5da6c03a 100644 --- a/fontconfig/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml +++ b/fontconfig/doc/fontconfig-user.sgml @@ -297,20 +297,21 @@ following structure: </para> <refsect2><title><literal><fontconfig></literal></title><para> This is the top level element for a font configuration and can contain -<literal><dir></literal>, <literal><cache></literal>, <literal><include></literal>, <literal><match></literal> and <literal><alias></literal> elements in any order. +<literal><dir></literal>, <literal><cachedir></literal>, <literal><include></literal>, <literal><match></literal> and <literal><alias></literal> elements in any order. </para></refsect2> <refsect2><title><literal><dir></literal></title><para> This element contains a directory name which will be scanned for font files to include in the set of available fonts. </para></refsect2> - <refsect2><title><literal><cache></literal></title><para> -This element contains a file name for the per-user cache of font -information. If it starts with '~', it refers to a file in the users -home directory. This file is used to hold information about fonts that -isn't present in the per-directory cache files. It is automatically -maintained by the fontconfig library. The default for this file -is ``~/.fonts.cache-<literal><version></literal>'', where <literal><version></literal> is the font configuration -file version number (currently 2). + <refsect2><title><literal><cachedir></literal></title><para> +This element contains a directory name that is supposed to be stored or read +the cache of font information. If multiple elements are specified in +the configuration file, the directory that can be accessed first in the list +will be used to store the cache files. If it starts with '~', it refers to +a directory in the users home directory. The default directory is ``~/.fontconfig'' +and it contains the cache files named ``<literal><hash value></literal>-<literal><architecture></literal>.cache-<literal><version</literal>'', +where <literal><version></literal> is the font configureation file +version number (currently 3). </para></refsect2> <refsect2><title><literal><include ignore_missing="no"></literal></title><para> This element contains the name of an additional configuration file or @@ -686,7 +687,7 @@ is the conventional location for per-user font configuration, although the actual location is specified in the global fonts.conf file. </para> <para> -<emphasis> ~/.fonts.cache-*</emphasis> +<emphasis> ~/.fontconfig/*.cache-*</emphasis> is the conventional repository of font information that isn't found in the per-directory caches. This file is automatically maintained by fontconfig. </para> |