[Hitcher]

Couple of font requests

1. Lighter and bolder weights.
   
   
2. Capitalise the first letter of each word.
   
   

Thanks.

[Mudislander]

"Capitalise the first letter of each word." would be great!!

[mkortstiege]

Quick and dirty try @ https://github.com/mkortstiege/xbmc/tree/capitalize. A win32 testbuild based on master is queued on jenkins and should be on the mirrors later.

Should work like lower- and uppercase with using [CAPITALIZE] and/or with capitalize <style> tag in fonts.xml

[mkortstiege]

What exactly do you mean with "lighter and bolder weights"?

[Hitcher]

Quick and dirty try @ https://github.com/mkortstiege/xbmc/tree/capitalize. A win32 testbuild based on master is queued on jenkins and should be on the mirrors later.

Should work like lower- and uppercase with using [CAPITALIZE] and/or with capitalize <style> tag in fonts.xml

Awesome, thanks.

What exactly do you mean with "lighter and bolder weights"?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs...t#Examples

I had a poke around GitHub and found the bold code if that helps -

https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/blob/c096e7...ontTTF.cpp

Code:

// Embolden code - original taken from freetype2 (ftsynth.c)
void CGUIFontTTFBase::EmboldenGlyph(FT_GlyphSlot slot)
{
  if ( slot->format != FT_GLYPH_FORMAT_OUTLINE )
    return;

  /* some reasonable strength */
  FT_Pos strength = FT_MulFix( m_face->units_per_EM,
                    m_face->size->metrics.y_scale ) / 24;

  FT_BBox bbox_before, bbox_after;
  FT_Outline_Get_CBox( &slot->outline, &bbox_before );
  FT_Outline_Embolden( &slot->outline, strength );  // ignore error
  FT_Outline_Get_CBox( &slot->outline, &bbox_after );

  FT_Pos dx = bbox_after.xMax - bbox_before.xMax;
  FT_Pos dy = bbox_after.yMax - bbox_before.yMax;

  if ( slot->advance.x )
    slot->advance.x += dx;

  if ( slot->advance.y )
    slot->advance.y += dy;

  slot->metrics.width        += dx;
  slot->metrics.height       += dy;
  slot->metrics.horiBearingY += dy;
  slot->metrics.horiAdvance  += dx;
  slot->metrics.vertBearingX -= dx / 2;
  slot->metrics.vertBearingY += dy;
  slot->metrics.vertAdvance  += dy;
}

[Hitcher]

Quick and dirty try @ https://github.com/mkortstiege/xbmc/tree/capitalize. A win32 testbuild based on master is queued on jenkins and should be on the mirrors later.

Should work like lower- and uppercase with using [CAPITALIZE] and/or with capitalize <style> tag in fonts.xml

Working as expected except for acronyms.

NYPD becomes Nypd
N.Y.P.D becomes N.y.p.d

Also McCloud becomes Mccloud.

I guess this is converting all the letters (first to upper and the rest to lower) whereas it might be simpler to just convert the first to upper if it isn't already.

[mkortstiege]

Right. That's what i mean with quick n dirty Will fix and send a PR tomorrow. Will also look into the embolden one you linked.

[Hitcher]

[Hitcher]

A few more instances where the first letter gets missed are words following a bracket, slash, hyphen and quote.

Code:

( / - "

Will also look into the embolden one you linked.

Also any luck with this yet?

Thanks.

[mkortstiege]

Will check why those are missing. No luck on the embolden one yet. I just had a brief look at it and i am still trying to get familiar with the guilib ..

[mkortstiege]

Could you please give some examples and what you expect it to become?

[Hitcher]

This is a good example of different weights.

Code:

100   Thin (Hairline)
200   Extra Light (Ultra Light)
300   Light
400   Normal
500   Medium
600   Semi Bold (Demi Bold)
700   Bold
800   Extra Bold (Ultra Bold)
900   Black (Heavy)

[mkortstiege]

Oh I actually meant the uppercasing one :p

[Hitcher]

Sorry, here you go.









Thanks.

[Hitcher]

2015-03-10 Fonts - ability to capitalize the first letter of each word

skins can now use the [CAPITALIZE] tag to uppercase the first characters of every word in a string.


forum thread: 220249 (thread)
git commit: https://github.com/xbmc/xbmc/commit/4e54...46357ea601
pull request: 6599 (PR)

Also working in the font.xml style field.

Updated the wiki.

eg

Code:

<font>
    <name>LightCap40</name>
    <filename>HelveticaNeue_Lt.ttf</filename>
    <style>capitalize</style>
    <size>40</size>
</font>