Re: Liberation fonts

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Patches are always welcome. feel free to submit a bug.
Though you may need to take more attension on the priority of them.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 12:15 AM, pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx
<pravin.d.s@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 1 September 2015 at 18:39, <hsv@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> Quote from fedorahosted.org/liberation-fonts/ :
>>
>> There are three sets: Sans (a substitute for Arial, Albany, Helvetica,
>> Nimbus Sans L, and Bitstream Vera Sans), Serif (a substitute for Times New
>> Roman, Thorndale, Nimbus Roman, and Bitstream Vera Serif) and Mono (a
>> substitute for Courier New, Cumberland, Courier, Nimbus Mono L, and
>> Bitstream Vera Sans Mono).
>>
>> How can Mono substitute for both Courier New and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono,
>> when one has serif and the other not? It seems very like that set of
>> attributes that are the generic font names, serif, sans-serif, cursive,
>> fantasy, and monospace. They are only attributes, not disjoint sets. Besides
>> Courier New that has serifs and pitch, and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono, which
>> has pitch but not serifs, there is an old Selectric typewriter face called
>> Script 12 pitch, which is also cursive. "Serif" and "sans-serif" are
>> disjoint, and I would vouch for nothing with "fantasy", but "monospaced" is
>> not disjoint with three of them--is "cursive" disjoint with "serif" and
>> "sans-serif"?
>
>
> You have raised very valid point. Monospace font can be either serif or
> sans. i.e. mono-serif or mono-sans. Have not seen this in fontconfig.
>
> Coming to alias file for liberation-mono-fonts says only.
>
>     <alias binding="same">
>           <family>Courier New</family>
>             <accept>
>               <family>Liberation Mono</family>
>             </accept>
>         </alias>
>
> might be alias file 45-latin.conf causing said issue?
>
> Regards,
> Pravin Satpute
>
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