What are the possible font family names? Why no "Helvetica" ?

[fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (John Ellson)]

Keith Packard wrote:

>>Why is "Helvetica" not matched to a sans-serif font?
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>it probably should be; your /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file should map
>'Helvetica' to 'sans-serif' and then 'sans-serif' to a list of possible 
>sans-serif faces.
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It was already in there.  The problem was that I was missing the
    FcConfigSubstitute(0,pattern,FcPatternMatch);
statement.  I was thinking it was unnecessary if I was setting the pattern


Thanks for fontconfig.  This is exactly what I needed.

John