Xxxx-bold-italic.ttf
) was influenced by how FOP works.
2008-08-22
Fonts
I've been proud of Novelang support for custom fonts and now I'm reading this: FOP, the PDF generator used by Novelang, is able to scan multiple directories for fonts. It is even able to use system fonts (based on a directory scan, though).
http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/0.95/fonts.html#register
I still believe that using system fonts is error-prone.
I wonder if FOP is able to aggregate in the same family various files representing different weights and styles. Anyways, Novelang needs a font list for the font listing which is really useful, especially when there are some broken fonts somewhere. But FOP should hold such a list somewhere internally.
Now I'm tempted to give access to FOP configuration file in some way instead of making FOP "transparent". Such transparency fails because the naming convention for fonts (
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