#FontConfig Pure

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Pure-functional language bindings to FontConfig. Mostly consists of conversions between common Haskell types & FontConfig's imperative C types.

Queries a database of fonts, both in-memory & on the local filesystem, to find the one most closely matching your desired font-family, style, & size. Includes bridges from Haskell Stylist and to both FreeType & (soon) Harfbuzz.

#Requirements

• FontConfig 2.13 or greater
• LibStdC++ (for Text dependency)
• Cabal

Cabal can install the rest.

#Use

Please see the Haddock documentation for API usage.

Contains a demo program in Main.hs, which can be run via cabal run, to query the system font database using standard FontConfig query syntax given in commandline arguments.

There's a tentative expansion with its own testscript which bridges over to Harfbuzz-Pure, & includes a testscript which renders "sphinx of black quartz judge my vow" using the best matching fontfile for your query. This is being held up until a new version of Haskell CSS Syntax is released to Hackage supporting UTF-8 Text.

#Contributing

Please send patches to our issue tracker by either:

• Attaching the output of git format-patch.
• git send-email to ~alcinnz/fontconfig-pure@todo.argonaut-constellation.org .
• Linking to your fork elsewhere.

Whichever you find most convenient.

If you'd prefer to not make your email address public please contact alcinnz@argonaut-constellation.org !