FONT.ECLASS

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font.eclass - Eclass to make font installation uniform

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font_wrap_opentype_compat: Converts .bdf and .pcf fonts detected within ${ED} to the OTB wrapper format using x11-apps/fonttosfnt. Handles optional .gz extension.
font_xfont_config: Generate Xorg font files (mkfontscale/mkfontdir).
font_fontconfig: Install fontconfig conf files given in FONT_CONF.
font_cleanup_dirs: Remove font directories containing only generated files.
font_pkg_setup: The font pkg_setup function. Collision protection
font_src_install: The font src_install function.
_update_fontcache: Updates fontcache if !prefix and media-libs/fontconfig installed
font_pkg_postinst: The font pkg_postinst function.
font_pkg_postrm: The font pkg_postrm function.

FONT_SUFFIX = ${FONT_SUFFIX:-} (REQUIRED): Space delimited list of font suffixes to install.
FONT_S: Directory containing the fonts. If unset, ${S} is used instead. Can also be an array of several directories.
FONT_PN = ${FONT_PN:-${PN}}: Font name (ie. last part of FONTDIR).
FONTDIR = ${FONTDIR:-/usr/share/fonts/${FONT_PN}}: Full path to installation directory.
FONT_CONF = ( "" ): Array containing fontconfig conf files to install.
FONT_OPENTYPE_COMPAT: Determines whether detected BDF and PCF font files should be converted to an SFNT wrapper, for use with newer Pango.

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

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