From a6710d6d88eeff8c395cf491bc56ac699288f41b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Emery Hemingway Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 20:49:30 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add motivation to README --- README.md | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index 018a064..7f8e524 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -29,3 +29,11 @@ $fontspace [ ] ] ``` + +# Motivation + +This actor is only useful with applications that already speak Syndicate. For those applications that do, getting typeface and font configuration over Syndicate has a few benefits over using Fontconfig directly. +- One less library to compile, link, and load. +- Request caching across different applications and invocations. +- Less system-calls at the application side. +- Dynamic font configuration.