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<refsect2><title>Font Configuration</title>
<para>
The configuration module consists of the FcConfig datatype, libexpat and
-FcConfigParse which walks over an XML tree and ammends a configuration with
+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
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.
+convenience for the applications' rendering mechanism.
</para>
<programlisting>
Property Type Description
--------------------------------------------------------------
family String Font family names
- familylang String Languages cooresponding to each family
+ familylang String Languages corresponding to each family
style String Font style. Overrides weight and slant
- stylelang String Languages cooresponding to each style
+ stylelang String Languages corresponding to each style
fullname String Font full names (often includes style)
- fullnamelang String Languages cooresponding to each fullname
+ 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
Monospace:matrix=1 .1 0 1 The users preferred monospace font
with artificial obliquing
</programlisting>
+ <para>
+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.
+ </para>
</refsect2>
</refsect1>
+<refsect1><title>Debugging Applications</title>
+ <para>
+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.
+ </para>
+ <programlisting>
+ 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
+ </programlisting>
+ <para>
+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.
+ </para>
+</refsect1>
<refsect1><title>Lang Tags</title>
<para>
Each font in the database contains a list of languages it supports. This is
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-<sgmltag>version</>'', where <sgmltag>version</> is the font configuration
-file version number (currently 1).
+file version number (currently 2).
</para></refsect2>
<refsect2><title><sgmltag>include ignore_missing="no"</></title><para>
This element contains the name of an additional configuration file or
the library.
</para></refsect2>
<refsect2><title><sgmltag>config</></title><para>
-This element provides a place to consolodate additional configuration
+This element provides a place to consolidate additional configuration
information. <sgmltag>config</> can contain <sgmltag>blank</> and <sgmltag>rescan</> elements in any
order.
</para></refsect2>
*) 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.
+on filenaming conventions which can't be relied upon. Note that globs
+only apply to directories, not to individual fonts.
</para></refsect2>
<refsect2><title><sgmltag>pattern</></title><para>
Pattern elements perform list-style matching on incoming fonts; that is,
<sgmltag>family</> element followed by optional <sgmltag>prefer</>, <sgmltag>accept</> and <sgmltag>default</>
elements. Fonts matching the <sgmltag>family</> element are edited to prepend the
list of <sgmltag>prefer</>ed families before the matching <sgmltag>family</>, append the
-<sgmltag>accept</>able familys after the matching <sgmltag>family</> and append the <sgmltag>default</>
+<sgmltag>accept</>able families after the matching <sgmltag>family</> and append the <sgmltag>default</>
families to the end of the family list.
</para></refsect2>
<refsect2><title><sgmltag>family</></title><para>
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