FONT.ECLASS

NAME

font - easy, uniform font installation

DESCRIPTION

The font eclass attempts to make font installation as easy as possible. Everything that usually involves installing fonts (such as creating scalable font indecis, updating the font cache, etc...) is transparently taken care of by the font eclass.

EXAMPLES

Here's a simple example ebuild:

inherit font

DESCRIPTION="a collection of fonts for Nepali users"
HOMEPAGE="http://www.mpp.org.np/"
SRC_URI="mirror://gentoo/${P}.tar.bz2"

LICENSE="freedist"
SLOT="0"
KEYWORDS="alpha amd64 ppc x86"
IUSE=""

DEPEND=""

S="${WORKDIR}/${PN}"
FONT_S=${S}
FONT_SUFFIX="ttf"

VARIABLES

FONT_SUFFIX: Space-delimited list of font suffixes to install.
FONT_S: Directory containing the fonts. If omitted, ${S} will be used.
DOCS: Space-delimited list of documents to install.

FUNCTIONS

font_xfont_config: Creates font indecis for X font files and also installs a fonts.alias file, if it exists. This function is called by font_src_install.
font_xft_config: Creates fontconfig cache. This function is also called by font_src_install.
font_src_install: Installs all fonts ending with suffixes listed in ${FONT_SUFFIX} as well as any documents listed in ${DOCS}. This function will be used as the default src_install function in an ebuild that omits one.

REPORTING BUGS

Please report bugs via http://bugs.gentoo.org/

FILES

/usr/portage/eclass/font.eclass

AUTHORS

Aaron Walker <ka0ttic@gentoo.org>
Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>

CVS HEADER

$Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-src/portage/man/font.eclass.5,v 1.2 2004/09/29 12:55:49 vapier Exp $