%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Configuring Xft2 and fontconfig for MagicPoint Jun 5, 2003 %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% From 1.10a, mgp supports Xft2 and fontconfig libraries. Using these libraries will bring mgp the following benefits. a) type1 font support b) better anti-aliasing algorithm c) closest matching font selection algorithm d) M17N functions To use these functions, you need to install them. If you have XFree86 4.2 or higher, probably Xft2 is already installed. But you might have to install fontconfig. If you're using recent Linux distributions, they may be already installed and configured. If you have the "fc-list" command which is part of the fontconfig package and if it shows names of the fonts on your system, both libraries have been successfully installed. use %xfont directive to specify which font to use. If you don't have these libraries, the following URL will be useful. * http://www.fontconfig.org you can get the most recent version of the fontconfig package and configuration documents for setting up. * http://www.xfree86.org you can get the most recent version of XFree86.