Fonts in XFree86

Juliusz Chroboczek, Juliusz.Chroboczek@ens.fr

XFree86 contains a number of improvements related to fonts, including

• inclusion of new fonts;
• internationalisation of the scalable font backends (Type 1, Speedo, and TrueType);
• support for TrueType fonts;
• support for CID-keyed fonts.

1. Background and terminology

1.1. Characters and glyphs

1.2. Font files, fonts, and XLFD

1.3. Unicode

2. New fonts

2.1. Bitmap fonts

2.2. Scalable fonts

3. Internationalisation of scalable font backends.

3.1. The `fontenc' layer

3.2. Backend-specific notes about fontenc

3.3. Format of encodings directory files

3.4. Format of encoding files

3.5. Using symbol fonts

3.6. Using badly encoded font files

4. New font backends

4.1. New TrueType backends

4.2. Support for CID-keyed fonts

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