How to use a custom font in my add-on?

ZombieKnight · Post by **ZombieKnight** » March 7th, 2024, 5:52 pm

Hi,
I've got a .ttf and .otf font files, but I don't know how to use them in my messages(and story).
I haven't found any examples...
Any ideas?

Post by **Pentarctagon** » March 7th, 2024, 6:36 pm

It is not currently possible.

ZombieKnight · Post by **ZombieKnight** » March 7th, 2024, 6:49 pm

Oh hell, why???
Is it becouse of the security or lack of people to do so?

ZombieKnight · Post by **ZombieKnight** » March 7th, 2024, 6:51 pm

Can I workaround it? (make .png from the characters and then put pngs there instead of characters or smt)?

Post by **Pentarctagon** » March 7th, 2024, 7:06 pm

Mostly it just hasn't been implemented yet - the github issue for it is https://github.com/wesnoth/wesnoth/issues/1386

ZombieKnight · Post by **ZombieKnight** » March 7th, 2024, 7:57 pm

10 Years?!!!
Idk the Wesnoth code and I'm not really used for c++ but when there are basic fonts, why can't I use custom?

Post by **Pentarctagon** » March 7th, 2024, 9:02 pm

Because either the fonts need to be installed on your system or Wesnoth needs to load them, and letting Wesnoth load custom fonts hasn't been a priority.

ZombieKnight · Post by **ZombieKnight** » March 8th, 2024, 5:22 am

Oh, poor.
So whats the best way to workaround that?

Post by **Pentarctagon** » March 8th, 2024, 5:31 am

As far as I know, there isn't one.

ZombieKnight · Post by **ZombieKnight** » March 8th, 2024, 7:50 am

Aaand do you thing someone is going to add [fonts] into working add-on tags? (It looks like not, since its 10 years...)

Post by **Pentarctagon** » March 8th, 2024, 5:07 pm

I don't know of anyone planning to work on it currently. Commenting there as someone who would use the feature would increase the likelihood though.

Heindal · Post by **Heindal** » March 8th, 2024, 5:18 pm

This is really a problem. While it would be easy to implant several free fonts (and really have to be free to be used for commercial purpose) and make the player select a font, it is another caliber of allowing player to upload a custom font. You can never control if there is a copyright issue and if the player just found a font somewhere. And this is just one aspect.

Another aspect is that it has to support all kind of different signs and is truly an open type font. Utopia, even so you buy a new font now, for example doesn't contain any signs that are used in eastern Europe, maybe because it was designed in the Eighties. Many other open fonts don't support signs, left alone that some signs that exist can't be interpreted by an output unit.

Of course I have no idea about that matter, I've just been admin for several publishers and was in charge for the fonts, so I'm just a random voice from the internet.

ZombieKnight · Post by **ZombieKnight** » March 8th, 2024, 6:57 pm

Just to put it on the right note... I have full compatibility, all weird characters, and license.

You think license is such a problem? Can't just remove it from add-on server if it violates rules and tell the creator to rework the font thing... same like with images?

lhybrideur · Post by **lhybrideur** » March 11th, 2024, 8:34 am

I was going to say the same thing as ZombieKnight.
It is not a bigger problem than the rest of the stuff that are in add-on.
BfW neither checks for licensing of art nor if the add-on works, so it would be the problem of the one publishing the add-on adding the new font to check for the license and the completeness of the font..

Post by **Celtic_Minstrel** » March 23rd, 2024, 4:33 am

I don't think there is anything technically difficult about supporting custom fonts – we already let translators add arbitrary fonts suitable to their language, if necessary. It's mostly just that no-one ever found the time and motivation to do it. A pull request would very likely be accepted, if there were someone technically-inclined willing to implement it.

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