In the general case, it isn't possible for us to efficiently find system fonts that
are monospace. Fonts don't advertise being monospace frequently, so the only way to
reliably detect it is to check that all glyphs are the same width. This is expensive,
far too much so to be done on every system font when there may be thousands of them.
Other font resolution systems rely upon the user requesting fonts by their family name.
If you want a monospace font, ask for it by name or use a generic name like 'monospace'.
This will be Gio's approach from here on out.
Existing code relying upon setting Variant="Mono" should instead set Typeface="Go Mono"
(for the Go font) or specify another monospace typeface. The generic face "monospace"
will search for one of a set of known monospace fonts that may be available on the system.
Similarly, smallcaps isn't well advertised and users should rely on requesting all-smallcaps
fonts by typeface. To get the Go smallcaps font, use Typeface="Go Smallcaps".
Signed-off-by: Chris Waldon <christopher.waldon.dev@gmail.com>
This commit introduces a special mechanism to load only the regular version
of the Go font. This is useful for Gio to load a font for drawing window
decorations without forcing applications to load every Go font.
Signed-off-by: Chris Waldon <christopher.waldon.dev@gmail.com>
This commit adds back support for loading font collections, which we
lost when switching to the harfbuzz-based shaper last January. In
addition, this commit takes advantage of our new font loading library's
metadata facilities to automatically construct text.FontFaces for all
fonts within a collection. This is significantly more ergonomic for
users, and can be used to load single fonts with automatic metadata
detection as well.
I've exposed a opentype.Face.Font() method that can be used to get the
font metadata for a given face as well, though you have to type assert to
see it:
var myFace text.Face
if asOpentype, ok := myFace.(opentype.Face); ok {
myFont := asOpentype.Font()
}
The one problem with this approach is that the font variant field always
be automatically populated. Mono font detection is supported, but
other variants like SmallCaps are more complicated and may need to be
expressed differently in the future (smallcaps is a feature that any font
file can have, not necessarily a separate font file). See this [0] upstream
issue for details.
Additionally, in order to avoid import cycles, I've moved the declarations
of font attributes to package font. You can fix your code automatically to
refer to the new definitions by running the following:
gofmt -w -r 'text.FontFace -> font.FontFace' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Variant -> font.Variant' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Style -> font.Style' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Typeface -> font.Typeface' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Font -> font.Font' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Regular -> font.Regular' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Italic -> font.Italic' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Thin -> font.Thin' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.ExtraLight -> font.ExtraLight' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Light -> font.Light' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Normal -> font.Normal' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Medium -> font.Medium' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.SemiBold -> font.SemiBold' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Bold -> font.Bold' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.ExtraBold -> font.ExtraBold' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Black -> font.Black' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Hairline -> font.Thin' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.UltraLight -> font.ExtraLight' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.DemiBold -> font.SemiBold' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.UltraBold -> font.ExtraBold' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.Heavy -> font.Black' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.ExtraBlack -> font.Black+50' .
gofmt -w -r 'text.UltraBlack -> font.ExtraBlack' .
Make sure each affected file imports gioui.org/font.
[0] https://github.com/go-text/typesetting/issues/57
Signed-off-by: Chris Waldon <christopher.waldon.dev@gmail.com>
This commit switches gofont.Collection from returning
a collection of fonts using the old text shaper to
using the new harfbuzz-based shaper. The underlying type
of gofont.Collection() has changed, which may break users
who dug into the font data.
References: https://todo.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio/146
Signed-off-by: Chris Waldon <christopher.waldon.dev@gmail.com>
This commit replaces the previous opentype.Font with
an implementation that uses the new text shaper. In
order to keep the implementation simple, support for
opentype font collections was dropped. It should be
possible to re-add this support after some changes
to the text shaper's line wrapping algorithm.
To expand on the above, doing proper font fallback with
harfbuzz will require splitting the input text on font
glyph support boundaries, changing the input from a
simple shaping.Input to []shaping.Input with each input
matched against the font that supports its language.
The line wrapping then needs to be able to properly
consume that slice. Since the line wrapping algorithm is
really complex, I'm hoping to defer that modification
until this simple version is accepted.
References: https://todo.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio/146
Signed-off-by: Chris Waldon <christopher.waldon.dev@gmail.com>
This commit adds a font collection that uses the new
text shaper so that constructing material.Themes atop
it is equally simple to using the old shaper.
You can use material.NewTheme(gofont.CollectionHB()) with
this commit applied.
References: https://todo.sr.ht/~eliasnaur/gio/146
Signed-off-by: Chris Waldon <christopher.waldon.dev@gmail.com>
A slice of FontFace pairs are simpler, and thread safe in case a client
wants to append or modify the font collection.
Signed-off-by: Elias Naur <mail@eliasnaur.com>
Before this change, package font implemented a global font registry,
with the usual problems of package global state.
This change deletes the global registry and introduces the text.Collection
type for representing a list of fonts and their faces. Collection exports
Lookup that finds the closest match and its face.
The existing FontRegistry is renamed to Cache to reflect its new limited
functionality: a cache of shapes and measurements on top of a Collection.
Then, material.NewTheme is changed to take a Collection and initialize
a Cache.
Updates gio#19 because multiple windows require a separate (writable) Cache per
window, while (read-only) Collections may be shared.
Signed-off-by: Elias Naur <mail@eliasnaur.com>
Registering the font as a side effect of importing the gofont package
was too magic. Require an explicit Register call instead. As a side
effect, it is more clear which font is the default (the first one
registered).
Signed-off-by: Elias Naur <mail@eliasnaur.com>