[Xquartz-dev] Fwd: infinality in/under MacPorts

"René J.V. Bertin" rjvbertin at gmail.com
Tue Jun 24 14:43:51 PDT 2014


FYI.

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> From: bohoomil <infinalityfonts@>
> Date: June 24, 2014 22:54:14 CEST
> To: René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin@>
> Subject: Re: infinality in/under MacPorts
> 
> On 24.06.14 at 10:40, René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> 
> Hi again,
> 
> I'm glad that freetype2 was built successfully. Let me answer the questions now.
> 
> 
>> On Tuesday June 24 2014, René J.V. Bertin wrote regarding "Re: infinality in/under MacPorts"
>> 
>>> freetype-2.5.3-enable-valid.patch
>>> upstream-15.05.2014.patch
>>> infinality-2.5.3.patch
>> 
>> Ok, that explains things - hopefully (:) ) Does one still get the offset corrections on the aflatin.c file as I got using only the infinality-2.5.3 patch?
> 
> The offset is not a problem: it merely means that the patching application
> found the code in a different location than expected. The context of the code to
> be altered was correct, though: if it hadn't been, the patching would have been
> interrupted.
> 
>> Do you know of any legal obstacles that would explain why this has never been done by X.org? No (L)GPL-3 licensing on any of the patches, which would be a no-go for Apple?
> 
> Not really. As per freetype2 home page, the patents related to bytecode
> interpreter expired in May 2010. As a result, last year quite a few bits from
> Infinality patchset were included in the official freetype2 code base. The rest
> of the Infinality code extends configuration capabilities of the TrueType
> interpreter.
> 
> The author of Infinality patchset hasn't been active for almost a year now. I
> merely maintain the patches and, as far as my knowledge allows, try to adapt
> them to recent freetype2 releases. Besides, I develop
> fontconfig-infinality-ultimate library as a companion to freetype2-iu, plus
> alternative Infinality settings. The complete collection of software in binary
> packages is available in the repository for Arch Linux users. Other
> distributions can use it all the same: all they need to do is grab the code,
> patch the stock libraries and use additional configuration files.
> 
>> You mean 3 patches, right, or 3 packages? MacPorts doesn't usually split up projects into multiple packages as is custom under Debian (I don't really know about Arch).
> 
> To make best use of Infinality patches, you need three libraries tailored to
> properly work together:
> 
> 1. freetype2 -- in my project freetype2-infinality-ultimate,
> 2. fontconfig -- in my project fontconfig-infinality-ultimate,
> 3. cairo -- again, in my project, cairo-infinality-ultimate.
> 
> Each component is built separately and serves a different purpose. I'm currently
> working on a documentation that would cover in details what a maintainer of the
> packages for their distros should take care of in order to create a fully
> working and robust Infinality environment, the same one I develop for Arch
> Linux. Briefly, take a look at the pkgbuild branch of the GitHub repo and
> inspect three top-level packages: freetype2-iu, fontconfig-iu and cairo-iu. The
> `prepare` arrays in respective PKGBUILD scripts will give you an idea as of
> which patches should be used for each package, and `package` arrays which
> additional files should be copied during installation. It's actually a pretty
> straightforward process: copy & paste & a bit of logic will do most of the job.
> 
>> BTW, to what extent is it obligatory to have the fontconfig infinality patches included? Are those required for basic functionality, or do they "just" provide goodies like per-font tweaking?
> 
> fontconfig-infinality-ultimate is a required component of the
> Infinality-compliant software collection, as is my infinality-settings.sh.
> 
> 
>> I didn't think of making a screenshot before installing the variant
> 
> Just for the record: this is what Novarese Bk BT Bold looks like on my machine
> (all the pieces of software and config files come from my repo; I just created
> an additional fontconfig config file for the Novarese font):
> 
> http://bohoomil.com/img/arch_shots/2014-06-24_novarese-bold-gtk.png
> http://bohoomil.com/img/arch_shots/2014-06-24_novarese-bold-ff.png
> 
> Well, I hope you'll find any of the above snippets handy. Good luck and happy
> tweaking. ;)
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> bohoomil
> 



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