Nfont packages

Nfonts packages

The Arts backend manages fonts using so-called nfonts.

Nfonts are hand-crafted directories with a plist file and the font files, where the backend can find additional information to the fonts.

System-wide available Nfont directories are usually installed to $GNUSTEP_SYSTEM_ROOT/Library/Fonts/.

Creating a nfont is mainly a trivial task, so there are tools to help you creating them. One of them is alexm's mknfonts package.

Example

A typical nfont folder - in this case System.nfont packaged by Jeff Teunissen (Deek) - looks like this:

System.nfont/
System.nfont/DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf
System.nfont/DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf
System.nfont/DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf
System.nfont/DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf
System.nfont/DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold.ttf
System.nfont/FontInfo.plist
System.nfont/DejaVuSans.ttf
System.nfont/DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf
System.nfont/DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf

This is the FontInfo.plist file in that directory:

{
    Faces = (
	{
	    Files = (
		DejaVuSans.ttf
	    );
	    Name = Book;
	    PostScriptName = DejaVuSans;
	    Weight = 5;
	    Traits = 0;
	},
	{
	    Files = (
		"DejaVuSans-Oblique.ttf"
	    );
	    Name = "Book Oblique";
	    PostScriptName = "DejaVuSans-Oblique";
	    Weight = 5;
	    Traits = 1;
	},
	{
	    Files = (
		DejaVuSansCondensed.ttf
	    );
	    Name = "Book Condensed";
	    PostScriptName = DejaVuSansCondensed;
	    Weight = 5;
	    Traits = 16;
	},
	{
	    Files = (
		"DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique.ttf"
	    );
	    Name = "Book Condensed Oblique";
	    PostScriptName = "DejaVuSansCondensed-Oblique";
	    Weight = 5;
	    Traits = 17;
	},
	{
	    Files = (
		"DejaVuSans-Bold.ttf"
	    );
	    Name = Bold;
	    PostScriptName = "DejaVuSans-Bold";
	    Weight = 9;
	    Traits = 2;
	},
	{
	    Files = (
		"DejaVuSans-BoldOblique.ttf"
	    );
	    Name = "Bold Oblique";
	    PostScriptName = "DejaVuSans-BoldOblique";
	    Weight = 9;
	    Traits = 3;
	},
	{
	    Files = (
		"DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold.ttf"
	    );
	    Name = "Bold Condensed";
	    PostScriptName = "DejaVuSansCondensed-Bold";
	    Weight = 9;
	    Traits = 18;
	},
	{
	    Files = (
		"DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique.ttf"
	    );
	    Name = "Bold Condensed Oblique";
	    PostScriptName = "DejaVuSansCondensed-BoldOblique";
	    Weight = 9;
	    Traits = 19;
	}
    );
}