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authorPhilipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>2016-04-17 22:21:08 +0200
committerPhilipp Gesang <phg@phi-gamma.net>2016-04-17 22:21:08 +0200
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[doc] describe “use-fontforge” option in man page
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-rw-r--r--doc/luaotfload.conf.rst42
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst b/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst
index 5cb74f0..6cd4cd5 100644
--- a/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst
+++ b/doc/luaotfload.conf.rst
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
Luaotfload configuration file
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-:Date: 2016-04-07
+:Date: 2016-04-17
:Copyright: GPL v2.0
:Version: 2.7
:Manual section: 5
@@ -126,23 +126,25 @@ the variable is unset.
Section ``db``
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| variable | type | default |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| compress | b | ``true`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| formats | s | ``"otf,ttf,ttc,dfont"`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| max-fonts | n | ``2^51`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| scan-local | b | ``false`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| skip-read | b | ``false`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| strip | b | ``true`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
-| update-live | b | ``true`` |
-+---------------+--------+---------------------------+
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| variable | type | default |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| compress | b | ``true`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| formats | s | ``"otf,ttf,ttc,dfont"`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| max-fonts | n | ``2^51`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| scan-local | b | ``false`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| skip-read | b | ``false`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| strip | b | ``true`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| update-live | b | ``true`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
+| use-fontforge | b | ``false`` |
++-----------------+--------+---------------------------+
The flag ``compress`` determines whether the font index (usually
``luaotfload-names.lua[.gz]`` will be stored in compressed forms.
@@ -189,6 +191,10 @@ If ``update-live`` is set, Luaotfload will reload the database if it
cannot find a requested font. Those who prefer to update manually using
**luaotfload-tool** should unset this flag.
+The option ``use-fontforge`` switches name scanning back to the old
+method that relies on the builtin ``fontloader`` library. This is
+interesting for reference until the Fontforge code will be removed
+eventually.
Section ``default-features``
-----------------------------------------------------------------------