Le samedi 19 novembre 2005 à 13:43 +0000, Dave Mitchell a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:16:24AM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote: > > Once again, what is wrong with /etc/fonts/fonts.conf ? > > Because my brain can't parse XML. I'm speaking as someone who recently > spent a lot of time messing with Ant files (XML/java based replacement for > make). A simple example from /etc/fonts/fonts.conf: > > <!-- > Accept deprecated 'mono' alias, replacing it with 'monospace' > --> > <match target="pattern"> > <test qual="any" name="family"> > <string>mono</string> > </test> > <edit name="family" mode="assign"> > <string>monospace</string> > </edit> > </match> > > There are 22 words in that chunk, of which 3 are the important ones > (family/mono/monospace). You can stare at that for minutes and what its > doing still doesn't leap out at you. And how would you express this in so its doings would leap at you ? What is described here is not a simple operation, a more traditional syntax would probably have used regexpes and other "simple" stuff which requires 2 hours of man-page reading to be understood (let alone modified). But sure, it would probably have been more compact. -- Nicolas Mailhot
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