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Font Configuration in Amaya

How Amaya selects fonts

Amaya works with a fonts configuration file. By default that fonts configuration file is located in the Amaya/config/ directory and used fonts are located in the Amaya/fonts directory.

Format of Font Configuration files

Criteria used to select a font are:

The principle is to attach the path of of the font file (example : "/usr/share/fonts/truetype/msttcorefonts/arial.ttf" on a Linux platform or "$OSDIR\fonts\arial.ttf" on a Windows platform) to each set of criteria in fonts configuration files.

The syntax of these files is:

Amaya applies its standard strategy to select a font (as if no Font Configuration file exists).

Windows example ($OSDIR points to the OS location)

1;#Latin1 (US and Western Europe)

1;1=$OSDIR\fonts\times.ttf;2=$OSDIR\fonts\timesbd.ttf;3=$OSDIR\fonts\timesi.ttf;4=$OSDIR\fonts\timesbi.ttf;

2;1=$OSDIR\fonts\arial.ttf;2=$OSDIR\fonts\arialbd.ttf;3=$OSDIR\fonts\ariali.ttf;4=$OSDIR\fonts\arialbi.ttf;

3;1=$OSDIR\fonts\cour.ttf;2=$OSDIR\fonts\courbd.ttf;3=$OSDIR\fonts\couri.ttf;4=$OSDIR\fonts\courbi.ttf;

Linux example ($THOTDIR points to the Amaya root)

1;#Latin1 (US and Western Europe)

1;1=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeSerif.ttf;2=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeSerifBold.ttf;3=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeSerifItalic.ttf;4=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeSerifBoldItalic.ttf;

2;1=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeSans.ttf;2=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeSansBold.ttf;3=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeSansOblique.ttf;4=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeSansBoldOblique.ttf;

3;1=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeMono.ttf;2=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeMonoBold.ttf;3=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeMonoOblique.ttf;4=$THOTDIR/fonts/FreeMonoBoldOblique.ttf;

How to select other fonts

In order to let you choose your own fonts, you have to create your own fonts configuration file in your AmayaHome:


Irène Vatton
Date: 2009-11-18

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