On Mon, Mar 07, 2005 at 09:52:16AM -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > Which is precisely what font foundaries often end up doing. > I bought a family last week (Cloister Old Style) from > myfonts.com only to find that the four standard variants > had four separate family names. I had to go edit them with > fontforge. Which brings up another question: I have been wondering whether someone has entertained the idea that fontconfig (or some other layer) can have a config file that specifies something like "the italic version of this font is that font" or "the bold version of this font is that font", or, "to get CJK/Cyrillic/Hebrew/Arabic characters from this font, use that font". (This is basically how WordPerfect 5.0 handled fonts.) Perhaps it had been suggested and even voted down; I don't know :-) Now that the WangNew fonts are here, the point is probably a little bit moot, but back in the days that we had almost no free CJK fonts, a specification like "the bold version of AR PL Mingti2L Big5 is Kochi Gothic" or "the italic version of AR PL SongtiL GB is AR PL KaitiM GB" would solve a lot of problems (and is typographically sound). Regards, -- Ambrose LI Cheuk-Wing <a.c.li@xxxxxxxx> http://ada.dhs.org/~acli/
