Re: init: API

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On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 02:51:25PM +0100, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le samedi 19 novembre 2005 à 13:43 +0000, Dave Mitchell a écrit :
> > <!--
> >   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.

This is a bit hand-wavy because I'm not familiar with the font.conf
schema, but for example

    substitute name=family /mono/ "monospace"

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