Re: Accent support on fonts.
Posted by
R. van Twisk on
Jul 24, 2011; 4:43pm
URL: https://forum.librecad.org/Accent-support-on-fonts-tp4627948p4628272.html
On Jul 24, 2011, at 9:51 AM, ClaudeQC [via LibreCAD] wrote:
On 24/07/2011 09:50, R. van Twisk [via LibreCAD] wrote:
>
> On Jul 24, 2011, at 8:35 AM, ClaudeQC [via LibreCAD] wrote:
>
>>
>> Extracted from Sourceforge bug tracker
>>
(https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3374293&group_id=342582&atid=1433844):
>>
<https://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3374293&group_id=342582&atid=1433844):>
>>
>> >
>> > Claude,
>> >
>> > to show these characters you need to select the normallattin2 stickfont.
>> > Not all fonts have these characters like ñ è etc, but normallattin2 has
>> > them.
>> >
>> > This patch was one day supplied for QCad by Dionysos and the forum message
>> > can be found here :
>> >
>>
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=853&sid=b7ffb69bddac5442f02d926a570fd9ce
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<http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=853&sid=b7ffb69bddac5442f02d926a570fd9ce>
>> >
>> > This is a well known issue within LibreCAD/QCad and most users know to use
>> > the normallatin2 stickfont.
>> >
>> > Ries
>> >
>>
>>
>> Hello Ries,
>>
>> Interesting.
>>
>> - Wondering why the above mentioned patch was not done on the "standard"
>> font, since in AutoCAD/IntelliCAD, "STANDARD" font do support
>> text with accent, and "standard" font is more prone to use than
>> "normallatin2".
>>
>>
>> Claude
>>
>
> Claude,
>
> I don't know the history of this patch so I only know that normallatin2 was
> modified.
>
> In filterdxf we do something like this:
>
> if (sty=="simplex") {
> sty="normallatin2";
> }
>
> Should we add STANDARD to that aswell?
> or may be better, what if we 'alias' standard to normallatin2?
>
> Ries
>
- I am puzzled about that issue...
- Since "standard" font seems to exist in LibreCAD as in AutoCAD, I think
that we have to keep it, and patch it to add accents support (later).
This way, LibreCAD will truly support "standard" font.
What About just copy??
Rallaz, do you have an opinion about the standard font vs normallatin2?
Ries
Claude