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+fonts-conf
+
+Name
+
+fonts.conf -- Font configuration files
+
+Synopsis
+
+   /etc/fonts/fonts.conf
+   /etc/fonts/fonts.dtd
+   /etc/fonts/conf.d
+   ~/.fonts.conf.d
+   ~/.fonts.conf
+
+Description
+
+Fontconfig is a library designed to provide system-wide font configuration,
+customization and application access.
+
+Functional Overview
+
+Fontconfig contains two essential modules, the configuration module which
+builds an internal configuration from XML files and the matching module which
+accepts font patterns and returns the nearest matching font.
+
+Font Configuration
+
+The configuration module consists of the FcConfig datatype, libexpat and
+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 changing the running
+configuration is to add fonts and directories to the list of
+application-provided font files.
+
+The intent is to make font configurations relatively static, and shared by as
+many applications as possible. It is hoped that this will lead to more stable
+font selection when passing names from one application to another. XML was
+chosen as a configuration file format because it provides a format which is
+easy for external agents to edit while retaining the correct structure and
+syntax.
+
+Font configuration is separate from font matching; applications needing to do
+their own matching can access the available fonts from the library and perform
+private matching. The intent is to permit applications to pick and choose
+appropriate functionality from the library instead of forcing them to choose
+between this library and a private configuration mechanism. The hope is that
+this will ensure that configuration of fonts for all applications can be
+centralized in one place. Centralizing font configuration will simplify and
+regularize font installation and customization.
+
+Font Properties
+
+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.
+
+  Property        Type    Description
+  --------------------------------------------------------------
+  family          String  Font family names
+  familylang      String  Languages corresponding to each family
+  style           String  Font style. Overrides weight and slant
+  stylelang       String  Languages corresponding to each style
+  fullname        String  Font full names (often includes style)
+  fullnamelang    String  Languages corresponding to each fullname
+  slant           Int     Italic, oblique or roman
+  weight          Int     Light, medium, demibold, bold or black
+  size            Double  Point size
+  width           Int     Condensed, normal or expanded
+  aspect          Double  Stretches glyphs horizontally before hinting
+  pixelsize       Double  Pixel size
+  spacing         Int     Proportional, dual-width, monospace or charcell
+  foundry         String  Font foundry name
+  antialias       Bool    Whether glyphs can be antialiased
+  hinting         Bool    Whether the rasterizer should use hinting
+  hintstyle       Int     Automatic hinting style
+  verticallayout  Bool    Use vertical layout
+  autohint        Bool    Use autohinter instead of normal hinter
+  globaladvance   Bool    Use font global advance data
+  file            String  The filename holding the font
+  index           Int     The index of the font within the file
+  ftface          FT_Face Use the specified FreeType face object
+  rasterizer      String  Which rasterizer is in use
+  outline         Bool    Whether the glyphs are outlines
+  scalable        Bool    Whether glyphs can be scaled
+  scale           Double  Scale factor for point->pixel conversions
+  dpi             Double  Target dots per inch
+  rgba            Int     unknown, rgb, bgr, vrgb, vbgr,
+                          none - subpixel geometry
+  lcdfilter       Int     Type of LCD filter
+  minspace        Bool    Eliminate leading from line spacing
+  charset         CharSet Unicode chars encoded by the font
+  lang            String  List of RFC-3066-style languages this
+                          font supports
+  fontversion     Int     Version number of the font
+  capability      String  List of layout capabilities in the font
+  embolden        Bool    Rasterizer should synthetically embolden the font
+
+
+Font Matching
+
+Fontconfig performs matching by measuring the distance from a provided pattern
+to all of the available fonts in the system. The closest matching font is
+selected. This ensures that a font will always be returned, but doesn't ensure
+that it is anything like the requested pattern.
+
+Font matching starts with an application constructed pattern. The desired
+attributes of the resulting font are collected together in a pattern. Each
+property of the pattern can contain one or more values; these are listed in
+priority order; matches earlier in the list are considered "closer" than
+matches later in the list.
+
+The initial pattern is modified by applying the list of editing instructions
+specific to patterns found in the configuration; each consists of a match
+predicate and a set of editing operations. They are executed in the order they
+appeared in the configuration. Each match causes the associated sequence of
+editing operations to be applied.
+
+After the pattern has been edited, a sequence of default substitutions are
+performed to canonicalize the set of available properties; this avoids the need
+for the lower layers to constantly provide default values for various font
+properties during rendering.
+
+The canonical font pattern is finally matched against all available fonts. The
+distance from the pattern to the font is measured for each of several
+properties: foundry, charset, family, lang, spacing, pixelsize, style, slant,
+weight, antialias, rasterizer and outline. This list is in priority order --
+results of comparing earlier elements of this list weigh more heavily than
+later elements.
+
+There is one special case to this rule; family names are split into two
+bindings; strong and weak. Strong family names are given greater precedence in
+the match than lang elements while weak family names are given lower precedence
+than lang elements. This permits the document language to drive font selection
+when any document specified font is unavailable.
+
+The pattern representing that font is augmented to include any properties found
+in the pattern but not found in the font itself; this permits the application
+to pass rendering instructions or any other data through the matching system.
+Finally, the list of editing instructions specific to fonts found in the
+configuration are applied to the pattern. This modified pattern is returned to
+the application.
+
+The return value contains sufficient information to locate and rasterize the
+font, including the file name, pixel size and other rendering data. As none of
+the information involved pertains to the FreeType library, applications are
+free to use any rasterization engine or even to take the identified font file
+and access it directly.
+
+The match/edit sequences in the configuration are performed in two passes
+because there are essentially two different operations necessary -- the first
+is to modify how fonts are selected; aliasing families and adding suitable
+defaults. The second is to modify how the selected fonts are rasterized. Those
+must apply to the selected font, not the original pattern as false matches will
+often occur.
+
+Font Names
+
+Fontconfig provides a textual representation for patterns that the library can
+both accept and generate. The representation is in three parts, first a list of
+family names, second a list of point sizes and finally a list of additional
+properties:
+
+        <families>-<point sizes>:<name1>=<values1>:<name2>=<values2>...
+
+
+Values in a list are separated with commas. The name needn't include either
+families or point sizes; they can be elided. In addition, there are symbolic
+constants that simultaneously indicate both a name and a value. Here are some
+examples:
+
+  Name                            Meaning
+  ----------------------------------------------------------
+  Times-12                        12 point Times Roman
+  Times-12:bold                   12 point Times Bold
+  Courier:italic                  Courier Italic in the default size
+  Monospace:matrix=1 .1 0 1       The users preferred monospace font
+                                  with artificial obliquing
+
+
+The '\', '-', ':' and ',' characters in family names must be preceeded by a '\'
+character to avoid having them misinterpreted. Similarly, values containing '\
+', '=', '_', ':' and ',' must also have them preceeded by a '\' character. The
+'\' characters are stripped out of the family name and values as the font name
+is read.
+
+Debugging Applications
+
+To help diagnose font and applications problems, fontconfig is built with a
+large amount of internal debugging left enabled. It is controlled by means of
+the FC_DEBUG environment variable. The value of this variable is interpreted as
+a number, and each bit within that value controls different debugging messages.
+
+  Name         Value    Meaning
+  ---------------------------------------------------------
+  MATCH            1    Brief information about font matching
+  MATCHV           2    Extensive font matching information
+  EDIT             4    Monitor match/test/edit execution
+  FONTSET          8    Track loading of font information at startup
+  CACHE           16    Watch cache files being written
+  CACHEV          32    Extensive cache file writing information
+  PARSE           64    (no longer in use)
+  SCAN           128    Watch font files being scanned to build caches
+  SCANV          256    Verbose font file scanning information
+  MEMORY         512    Monitor fontconfig memory usage
+  CONFIG        1024    Monitor which config files are loaded
+  LANGSET       2048    Dump char sets used to construct lang values
+  OBJTYPES      4096    Display message when value typechecks fail
+
+
+Add the value of the desired debug levels together and assign that (in base 10)
+to the FC_DEBUG environment variable before running the application. Output
+from these statements is sent to stdout.
+
+Lang Tags
+
+Each font in the database contains a list of languages it supports. This is
+computed by comparing the Unicode coverage of the font with the orthography of
+each language. Languages are tagged using an RFC-3066 compatible naming and
+occur in two parts -- the ISO 639 language tag followed a hyphen and then by
+the ISO 3166 country code. The hyphen and country code may be elided.
+
+Fontconfig has orthographies for several languages built into the library. No
+provision has been made for adding new ones aside from rebuilding the library.
+It currently supports 122 of the 139 languages named in ISO 639-1, 141 of the
+languages with two-letter codes from ISO 639-2 and another 30 languages with
+only three-letter codes. Languages with both two and three letter codes are
+provided with only the two letter code.
+
+For languages used in multiple territories with radically different character
+sets, fontconfig includes per-territory orthographies. This includes
+Azerbaijani, Kurdish, Pashto, Tigrinya and Chinese.
+
+Configuration File Format
+
+Configuration files for fontconfig are stored in XML format; this format makes
+external configuration tools easier to write and ensures that they will
+generate syntactically correct configuration files. As XML files are plain
+text, they can also be manipulated by the expert user using a text editor.
+
+The fontconfig document type definition resides in the external entity
+"fonts.dtd"; this is normally stored in the default font configuration
+directory (/etc/fonts). Each configuration file should contain the following
+structure:
+
+        <?xml version="1.0"?>
+        <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+        <fontconfig>
+        ...
+        </fontconfig>
+
+
+<fontconfig>
+
+This is the top level element for a font configuration and can contain <dir>,
+<cache>, <include>, <match> and <alias> elements in any order.
+
+<dir>
+
+This element contains a directory name which will be scanned for font files to
+include in the set of available fonts.
+
+<cache>
+
+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-<version>'', where
+<version> is the font configuration file version number (currently 2).
+
+<include ignore_missing="no">
+
+This element contains the name of an additional configuration file or
+directory. If a directory, every file within that directory starting with an
+ASCII digit (U+0030 - U+0039) and ending with the string ``.conf'' will be
+processed in sorted order. When the XML datatype is traversed by FcConfigParse,
+the contents of the file(s) will also be incorporated into the configuration by
+passing the filename(s) to FcConfigLoadAndParse. If 'ignore_missing' is set to
+"yes" instead of the default "no", a missing file or directory will elicit no
+warning message from the library.
+
+<config>
+
+This element provides a place to consolidate additional configuration
+information. <config> can contain <blank> and <rescan> elements in any order.
+
+<blank>
+
+Fonts often include "broken" glyphs which appear in the encoding but are drawn
+as blanks on the screen. Within the <blank> element, place each Unicode
+characters which is supposed to be blank in an <int> element. Characters
+outside of this set which are drawn as blank will be elided from the set of
+characters supported by the font.
+
+<rescan>
+
+The <rescan> element holds an <int> element which indicates the default
+interval between automatic checks for font configuration changes. Fontconfig
+will validate all of the configuration files and directories and automatically
+rebuild the internal datastructures when this interval passes.
+
+<selectfont>
+
+This element is used to black/white list fonts from being listed or matched
+against. It holds acceptfont and rejectfont elements.
+
+<acceptfont>
+
+Fonts matched by an acceptfont element are "whitelisted"; such fonts are
+explicitly included in the set of fonts used to resolve list and match
+requests; including them in this list protects them from being "blacklisted" by
+a rejectfont element. Acceptfont elements include glob and pattern elements
+which are used to match fonts.
+
+<rejectfont>
+
+Fonts matched by an rejectfont element are "blacklisted"; such fonts are
+excluded from the set of fonts used to resolve list and match requests as if
+they didn't exist in the system. Rejectfont elements include glob and pattern
+elements which are used to match fonts.
+
+<glob>
+
+Glob elements hold shell-style filename matching patterns (including ? and *)
+which match fonts based on their complete pathnames. This can be used to
+exclude a set of directories (/usr/share/fonts/uglyfont*), or particular font
+file types (*.pcf.gz), but the latter mechanism relies rather heavily on
+filenaming conventions which can't be relied upon. Note that globs only apply
+to directories, not to individual fonts.
+
+<pattern>
+
+Pattern elements perform list-style matching on incoming fonts; that is, they
+hold a list of elements and associated values. If all of those elements have a
+matching value, then the pattern matches the font. This can be used to select
+fonts based on attributes of the font (scalable, bold, etc), which is a more
+reliable mechanism than using file extensions. Pattern elements include patelt
+elements.
+
+<patelt name="property">
+
+Patelt elements hold a single pattern element and list of values. They must
+have a 'name' attribute which indicates the pattern element name. Patelt
+elements include int, double, string, matrix, bool, charset and const elements.
+
+<match target="pattern">
+
+This element holds first a (possibly empty) list of <test> elements and then a
+(possibly empty) list of <edit> elements. Patterns which match all of the tests
+are subjected to all the edits. If 'target' is set to "font" instead of the
+default "pattern", then this element applies to the font name resulting from a
+match rather than a font pattern to be matched. If 'target' is set to "scan",
+then this element applies when the font is scanned to build the fontconfig
+database.
+
+<test qual="any" name="property" target="default" compare="eq">
+
+This element contains a single value which is compared with the target
+('pattern', 'font', 'scan' or 'default') property "property" (substitute any of
+the property names seen above). 'compare' can be one of "eq", "not_eq", "less",
+"less_eq", "more", or "more_eq". 'qual' may either be the default, "any", in
+which case the match succeeds if any value associated with the property matches
+the test value, or "all", in which case all of the values associated with the
+property must match the test value. When used in a <match target="font">
+element, the target= attribute in the <test> element selects between matching
+the original pattern or the font. "default" selects whichever target the outer
+<match> element has selected.
+
+<edit name="property" mode="assign" binding="weak">
+
+This element contains a list of expression elements (any of the value or
+operator elements). The expression elements are evaluated at run-time and
+modify the property "property". The modification depends on whether "property"
+was matched by one of the associated <test> elements, if so, the modification
+may affect the first matched value. Any values inserted into the property are
+given the indicated binding ("strong", "weak" or "same") with "same" binding
+using the value from the matched pattern element. 'mode' is one of:
+
+  Mode                    With Match              Without Match
+  ---------------------------------------------------------------------
+  "assign"                Replace matching value  Replace all values
+  "assign_replace"        Replace all values      Replace all values
+  "prepend"               Insert before matching  Insert at head of list
+  "prepend_first"         Insert at head of list  Insert at head of list
+  "append"                Append after matching   Append at end of list
+  "append_last"           Append at end of list   Append at end of list
+
+
+<int>, <double>, <string>, <bool>
+
+These elements hold a single value of the indicated type. <bool> elements hold
+either true or false. An important limitation exists in the parsing of floating
+point numbers -- fontconfig requires that the mantissa start with a digit, not
+a decimal point, so insert a leading zero for purely fractional values (e.g.
+use 0.5 instead of .5 and -0.5 instead of -.5).
+
+<matrix>
+
+This element holds the four <double> elements of an affine transformation.
+
+<name>
+
+Holds a property name. Evaluates to the first value from the property of the
+font, not the pattern.
+
+<const>
+
+Holds the name of a constant; these are always integers and serve as symbolic
+names for common font values:
+
+  Constant        Property        Value
+  -------------------------------------
+  thin            weight          0
+  extralight      weight          40
+  ultralight      weight          40
+  light           weight          50
+  book            weight          75
+  regular         weight          80
+  normal          weight          80
+  medium          weight          100
+  demibold        weight          180
+  semibold        weight          180
+  bold            weight          200
+  extrabold       weight          205
+  black           weight          210
+  heavy           weight          210
+  roman           slant           0
+  italic          slant           100
+  oblique         slant           110
+  ultracondensed  width           50
+  extracondensed  width           63
+  condensed       width           75
+  semicondensed   width           87
+  normal          width           100
+  semiexpanded    width           113
+  expanded        width           125
+  extraexpanded   width           150
+  ultraexpanded   width           200
+  proportional    spacing         0
+  dual            spacing         90
+  mono            spacing         100
+  charcell        spacing         110
+  unknown         rgba            0
+  rgb             rgba            1
+  bgr             rgba            2
+  vrgb            rgba            3
+  vbgr            rgba            4
+  none            rgba            5
+  lcdnone         lcdfilter       0
+  lcddefault      lcdfilter       1
+  lcdlight        lcdfilter       2
+  lcdlegacy       lcdfilter       3
+  hintnone        hintstyle       0
+  hintslight      hintstyle       1
+  hintmedium      hintstyle       2
+  hintfull        hintstyle       3
+
+
+<or>, <and>, <plus>, <minus>, <times>, <divide>
+
+These elements perform the specified operation on a list of expression
+elements. <or> and <and> are boolean, not bitwise.
+
+<eq>, <not_eq>, <less>, <less_eq>, <more>, <more_eq>
+
+These elements compare two values, producing a boolean result.
+
+<not>
+
+Inverts the boolean sense of its one expression element
+
+<if>
+
+This element takes three expression elements; if the value of the first is
+true, it produces the value of the second, otherwise it produces the value of
+the third.
+
+<alias>
+
+Alias elements provide a shorthand notation for the set of common match
+operations needed to substitute one font family for another. They contain a
+<family> element followed by optional <prefer>, <accept> and <default>
+elements. Fonts matching the <family> element are edited to prepend the list of
+<prefer>ed families before the matching <family>, append the <accept>able
+families after the matching <family> and append the <default> families to the
+end of the family list.
+
+<family>
+
+Holds a single font family name
+
+<prefer>, <accept>, <default>
+
+These hold a list of <family> elements to be used by the <alias> element.
+
+EXAMPLE CONFIGURATION FILE
+
+System configuration file
+
+This is an example of a system-wide configuration file
+
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<!-- /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file to configure system font access -->
+<fontconfig>
+<!--
+        Find fonts in these directories
+-->
+<dir>/usr/share/fonts</dir>
+<dir>/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts</dir>
+
+<!--
+        Accept deprecated 'mono' alias, replacing it with 'monospace'
+-->
+<match target="pattern">
+        <test qual="any" name="family"><string>mono</string></test>
+        <edit name="family" mode="assign"><string>monospace</string></edit>
+</match>
+
+<!--
+        Names not including any well known alias are given 'sans'
+-->
+<match target="pattern">
+        <test qual="all" name="family" mode="not_eq">sans</test>
+        <test qual="all" name="family" mode="not_eq">serif</test>
+        <test qual="all" name="family" mode="not_eq">monospace</test>
+        <edit name="family" mode="append_last"><string>sans</string></edit>
+</match>
+
+<!--
+        Load per-user customization file, but don't complain
+        if it doesn't exist
+-->
+<include ignore_missing="yes">~/.fonts.conf</include>
+
+<!--
+        Load local customization files, but don't complain
+        if there aren't any
+-->
+<include ignore_missing="yes">conf.d</include>
+<include ignore_missing="yes">local.conf</include>
+
+<!--
+        Alias well known font names to available TrueType fonts.
+        These substitute TrueType faces for similar Type1
+        faces to improve screen appearance.
+-->
+<alias>
+        <family>Times</family>
+        <prefer><family>Times New Roman</family></prefer>
+        <default><family>serif</family></default>
+</alias>
+<alias>
+        <family>Helvetica</family>
+        <prefer><family>Arial</family></prefer>
+        <default><family>sans</family></default>
+</alias>
+<alias>
+        <family>Courier</family>
+        <prefer><family>Courier New</family></prefer>
+        <default><family>monospace</family></default>
+</alias>
+
+<!--
+        Provide required aliases for standard names
+        Do these after the users configuration file so that
+        any aliases there are used preferentially
+-->
+<alias>
+        <family>serif</family>
+        <prefer><family>Times New Roman</family></prefer>
+</alias>
+<alias>
+        <family>sans</family>
+        <prefer><family>Arial</family></prefer>
+</alias>
+<alias>
+        <family>monospace</family>
+        <prefer><family>Andale Mono</family></prefer>
+</alias>
+</fontconfig>
+
+
+User configuration file
+
+This is an example of a per-user configuration file that lives in ~/.fonts.conf
+
+<?xml version="1.0"?>
+<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
+<!-- ~/.fonts.conf for per-user font configuration -->
+<fontconfig>
+
+<!--
+        Private font directory
+-->
+<dir>~/.fonts</dir>
+
+<!--
+        use rgb sub-pixel ordering to improve glyph appearance on
+        LCD screens.  Changes affecting rendering, but not matching
+        should always use target="font".
+-->
+<match target="font">
+        <edit name="rgba" mode="assign"><const>rgb</const></edit>
+</match>
+</fontconfig>
+
+
+Files
+
+fonts.conf contains configuration information for the fontconfig library
+consisting of directories to look at for font information as well as
+instructions on editing program specified font patterns before attempting to
+match the available fonts. It is in xml format.
+
+conf.d is the conventional name for a directory of additional configuration
+files managed by external applications or the local administrator. The
+filenames starting with decimal digits are sorted in lexicographic order and
+used as additional configuration files. All of these files are in xml format.
+The master fonts.conf file references this directory in an <include> directive.
+
+fonts.dtd is a DTD that describes the format of the configuration files.
+
+~/.fonts.conf.d is the conventional name for a per-user directory of (typically
+auto-generated) configuration files, although the actual location is specified
+in the global fonts.conf file.
+
+~/.fonts.conf is the conventional location for per-user font configuration,
+although the actual location is specified in the global fonts.conf file.
+
+~/.fonts.cache-* is the conventional repository of font information that isn't
+found in the per-directory caches. This file is automatically maintained by
+fontconfig.
+
+See Also
+
+fc-cat(1), fc-cache(1), fc-list(1), fc-match(1), fc-query(1)
+
+Version
+
+Fontconfig version 2.8.0
+