Around 18 o'clock on Feb 15, Alan Chandler wrote: > I need to find how the "font patterns" are set up from the fonts. Can someone > explain how this works? [In broad terms only, I can delve into the right bit > of code one I find it] Fontconfig uses Freetype2 to extract information from font files. Family names are the hardest to locate, so fontconfig does quite a bit of work to find something usable. That code all lives in fcfreetype.c and you can watch it in action by enabling debugging of the font scanning logic (export FC_DEBUG=384) before running 'fc-cache -v -f .' in the directory containing the relevant fonts. -keith
