name : 90-synthetic.conf <?xml version="1.0"?> <!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd"> <fontconfig> <its:rules xmlns:its="http://www.w3.org/2005/11/its" version="1.0"> <its:translateRule translate="no" selector="/fontconfig/*[not(self::description)]"/> </its:rules> <!-- Artificial oblique for fonts without an italic or oblique version --> <match target="font"> <!-- check to see if the font is roman --> <test name="slant"> <const>roman</const> </test> <!-- check to see if the pattern requested non-roman --> <test target="pattern" name="slant" compare="not_eq"> <const>roman</const> </test> <!-- multiply the matrix to slant the font --> <edit name="matrix" mode="assign"> <times> <name>matrix</name> <matrix><double>1</double><double>0.2</double> <double>0</double><double>1</double> </matrix> </times> </edit> <!-- pretend the font is oblique now --> <edit name="slant" mode="assign"> <const>oblique</const> </edit> <!-- and disable embedded bitmaps for artificial oblique --> <edit name="embeddedbitmap" mode="assign"> <bool>false</bool> </edit> </match> <!-- Synthetic emboldening for fonts that do not have bold face available --> <match target="font"> <!-- check to see if the weight in the font is less than medium which possibly need emboldening --> <test name="weight" compare="less_eq"> <const>medium</const> </test> <!-- check to see if the pattern requests bold --> <test target="pattern" name="weight" compare="more_eq"> <const>bold</const> </test> <!-- set the embolden flag needed for applications using cairo, e.g. gucharmap, gedit, ... --> <edit name="embolden" mode="assign"> <bool>true</bool> </edit> <!-- set weight to bold needed for applications using Xft directly, e.g. Firefox, ... --> <edit name="weight" mode="assign"> <const>bold</const> </edit> </match> </fontconfig>