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QT3 font substitution

Since using Kubuntu for the first time, I had the problem that Chinese text was not rendered correctly in QT3 applications. This is due to QT's own font substitution, which apparently does not rely on fontconfig (see this [https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/qt-x11-free/+bug/94282 bug report]).

As a workaround, I wrote a Python script that emulates fontconfig's font substitution mechanism in QT3. The idea is to check for each font that exists on the system which fonts can be substituted for it using the fc-match command. A corresponding substitution entry is then written to the user's qtrc file. If the --system option is provided, the substitutions are written to the global qtrc file.

WARNING: The script will replace any existing font substitution in the qtrc file (e.g. ones written by qtconfig). To keep the old substitutions copy all entries in the [Font Substitution] section of the old qtrc file into the new one. A backup of the old qtrc file is saved under the name qtrc.old in the same directory where the qtrc file is located (i.e. $HOME/.qt or /etc/qt3 if you use the --system option).

You can find the script here: attachment:qtfonts.py

Ubuntu Packages

Currently, I only provide one package: the [http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/cleveref/ cleveref] package for intelligent cross-referencing with latex. Feel free to try it out (no warranty).

If you have any comments or questions, don't hesitate to [mailto:michael.ummels@rwth-aachen.de e-mail me].