[MacPorts] #44148: using Bohoomil's Infinality-Ultimate patches

Sat Nov 8 12:13:24 PST 2014

#44148: using Bohoomil's Infinality-Ultimate patches
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  Reporter:  rjvbertin@…                |      Owner:  ryandesign@…
      Type:  enhancement                |     Status:  new
  Priority:  Normal                     |  Milestone:
 Component:  ports                      |    Version:
Resolution:                             |   Keywords:  haspatch
      Port:  freetype fontconfig cairo  |
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Comment (by rjvbertin@…):

 Below are some packaging instructions bohoomil sent me recently. I've
 updated the Portfile and patches as well as fontconfig's post-destroot
 install script accordingly.

 {{{
 Here is the list of steps you may want to perform manually to make use of
 fontconfig-iu: in the future, they won't be necessary since everything
 will be
 done automatically during compilation. I am going to use Ubuntu directory
 layout
 in which

 * /etc/fonts/conf.avail -- is where stock fontconfig templates are
 installed
 * /etc/fonts/conf.d -- is the location of active fontconfig configuration
 files.

 The process of building Ubuntu fontconfig may actually differ: since
 you're
 using ppa, reproduce the steps following ppa's package building logic.

 1. Download fontconfig source packages from here:

 http://packages.ubuntu.com/utopic/fontconfig

 (You should use fontconfig v.2.11.1, the default one for Utopic Unicorn.)

 2. Download the latest fontconfig-ultimate archive you can download from
 here:

 https://github.com/bohoomil/fontconfig-ultimate/releases

 3. Copy the entire conf.d.infinality from the fontconfig-ultimate archive
 to the
 stock fontconfig root directory:

   $ ls fontconfig-2.11.1/ conf.d conf.d.infinality doc fc-cache ...

 4. Replace the patches in debian/patches with patches [01-05]-foo.patch
 and
 fc-cache.c.patch from fontconfig_patches and update the series file
 accordingly.
 You should also update the build script(s) so that the new ones are
 properly
 applied during compilation.

 The new patches will modify the stock fontconfig library in the following
 way:

 a. A new template directory, /etc/fonts/conf.avail.infinality, will be
 created.
 This is where fontconfig Infinality templates will be located and these
 will be
 used instead of stock ones from /etc/fonts/conf.avail.

 You can change or confirm the default location by specifying it during
 source
 code configuration, i.e.

   --with-templateinfdir=/etc/fonts/conf.avail.infinality

 b. /etc/fonts/conf.avail won't be removed: this directory is still needed
 for
 compatibility with the rest of Ubuntu applications, font packages and new
 fonts
 settings foo.conf files you'll get from fonts-settings directory.

 Once this is done, the C compiler can do its part of the job.

 Next few steps are basically instructions for Ubuntu package manager, so I
 guess
 the files you're going to modify now are respective pre/post{inst,rm}
 scripts.
 What you should do then:

 5. Copy combi, free and ms directories with their content from
 fontconfig_patches to /etc/fonts/conf.avail.infinality. These three are
 crucial
 for fontconfig-infinality to work correctly!

 6. Copy *conf files from fonts-settings to /etc/fonts/conf.avail (i.e. the
 stock
 template directory).

 7. Copy fc-presets from fontconfig_patches to /usr/bin.

 And that's it.

 In the future, the only necessary steps will be 1) patching (which will
 create
 new files automatically) and 2) defining default Infinality template
 directory
 with --with-templateinfdir= variable. So actually just a bit more effort
 than
 building the stock fontconfig.

 Now a few notes on how to use the newly built fontconfig-
 infinality{-ultimate}.

 1. Default presets and default font collection.

 Default font collection is the one you use to define default aliases:
 sans-serif, serif, monospace, etc. for Latin and non-Latin scripts. There
 are
 three predefined options available for the user by default:

 a. free -- only free fonts will be used, as stated in 60-latin-free.conf
 and
 65-non-latin-free.conf. The preset is the default one for the infinality-
 bundle
 and Arch Linux users, and all fonts can be installed from binary packages
 available in my infinality-bundle-fonts repository. The main difference
 between
 my font packages and stock ones is the presence of fontconfig
 configuration
 files in the former which were tailored for the ultimate settings set in
 infinality-settings{.sh} file. Besides, when necessary I fix buggy font
 files,
 so although the content of stock and my font packages may be identical, a
 few
 font files may actually differ. Further, I pack each font family to
 reside in
 its own subdirectory in /usr/share/fonts, which makes it easier to
 maintain them
 and optically determine which one you have or haven't got.

 The preset offers replacement options for non-free families: all of them
 are
 defined in 30-metric-aliases-free.conf and 37-repl-global-free.conf.

 b. ms -- only default Microsoft font families will be used, as stated in
 60-latin-ms.conf and 65-non-latin-ms.conf. This presets assumes you're
 using
 Microsoft Window 8+ fonts and they are installed.

 The preset mostly doesn't replace existing font families: the only
 substitutions
 occur for corrective or compatibility reasons (see 37-repl-global-ms.conf
 for
 details).

 c. combi -- this is a DIY presets for users who want to heavily customize
 their
 font collection. It's basically meant to be used when you're either using
 a
 pretty non-standard font families, you're going to mix different font
 collections (for instance, you want to use all ms and free fonts as is,
 without
 replacing non-free families with the free ones: this is quite a popular
 user
 case with Arch users and the pre-defined combi templates for this you can
 find
 in doc/fontconfig-infinality-ultimate/fontconfig-global/combi-minimal;
 replace
 the content of /etc/fonts/conf.avail.infinality/combi with them and set
 the
 combi preset to activate it), etc.

 Note that these three presets have nothing to do with rendering styles
 known
 from the original fontconfig-infinality: their sole purpose is font
 families
 management, not making your fonts look like Window, Mac, Ubuntu or the
 like.

 For two presets, free and ms, there is a an additional useful config file
 available in /etc/fonts/conf.avail.infinality: it's 35-repl-custom.conf.
 For
 example, if you are using the free font collection, but instead of Noto
 Sans you
 want to set Liberation Sans for your default sans-serif alias, you do so
 by
 copying the content of 60-latin-free.conf to 35-repl-custom.conf and
 re-arranging the names of the families accordingly. Another example: let's
 say
 you want to use the entire Microsoft font collection but instead of Arial,
 you'd
 rather set Nimbus Sans L as a replacement for Helvetica. Again,
 35-repl-custom.conf is where you place the necessary replacement rule.

 2. fc-presets: this is a little application which lets you set your
 default
 fontconfig-infinality preset (i.e. combi, free, ms). Run 'fc-presets help'
 to
 learn how to use it.

 Once again: I'm very sorry for all the documentation part for taking so
 much
 time to be completed. It's not my laziness, but a combination of technical
 and
 personal, health related problems. I hope that the above will help you
 understand the way fontconfig-iu operates which once completed properly,
 will
 involve roughly two steps:

   1. applying the patches that will take care of all the configuration
 nuances &
   rebuilding the library.

   2. running 'fc-presets help' to set correct fontconfig configuration
 files.

 Right now, unfortunately, a bit more manual work is still needed.
 }}}

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