Aotearoa.gblorb - LinuxLibertine font?

[gloomdog]

hi, the help text for Aotearoa (ifcomp 2010 winner) states the
following:

"Known issues: The older, 2009-08-25 build of Gargoyle, out of the
box, defaults to the Charter BT font, which is known to not support
Polynesian characters. This can be fixed by changing the font settings
in the garglk.ini configuration file to point to a font (such as one
of the ones above) that does support the characters. The newest
(2010.1) build of Gargoyle does not have this problem as it uses Linux
Libertine by default."

i have downloaded the windows zip file of the 2010.1 build, and it
does NOT use Linux Libertine but still Charter BT (according to the
garglk.ini). As a result, the Polynesian characters are still
displayed as question marks.

is this a defect? or am i doing something wrong? thanks.

[Ben Cressey]

On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 1:52 AM, gloomdog <gloo...@googlemail.com> wrote:

i have downloaded the windows zip file of the 2010.1 build, and it
does NOT use Linux Libertine but still Charter BT (according to the
garglk.ini). As a result, the Polynesian characters are still
displayed as question marks.

is this a defect? or am i doing something wrong? thanks.

Gargoyle's new font loading directives (propfont, monofont) require the font to be installed in a system location. The installer packages can satisfy this requirement automatically, but the zip file cannot. It is distributed without the Linux Libertine font and with a modified garglk.ini that uses the older fonts.

Ideally the library could still find and load fonts by name if they were placed in either the program directory or the game directory, but this adds another layer of complexity to the process and is not currently implemented.

I thought about retiring the binaries zip, since it's in an odd place at the moment. But I figured the reason people like it is because it offers control over the impact on the OS - no changes to the registry, system files, or file associations. It's not a huge reach to suppose that they also do not care to install new fonts, and the zip file as it stands is suitable for that purpose.