Around 14 o'clock on Mar 7, Owen Taylor wrote: > Would you count it as expected that: > > desc = pango_font_face_describe (face); > pango_font_description_set_weight (desc, PANGO_WEIGHT_BOLD); > > /* Use desc */ > > Ignores the call to set_weight? (because describe() sets some > "face name" field) (did you mean "style name"?) Hmm. Sequence doesn't exist in fontconfig. I think that might make a difference for the user... If you think of the style name as restricting the available variants to the selected style, or selecting a sub-family with the 'postscript name', then the 'set_weight' call is no more ignored than if face was already black; it's requesting the 'bold' variant of 'Cloister Old Style Roman' which doesn't happen to have a bold variant. Consider the fonts I just got -- named Cloister Old Style Roman, Cloister Old Style Italic, Cloister Old Style Bold and Cloister Old Style Bold Italic. All of these advertised a single style named 'Roman' (the humor of a 'Roman' 'Italic' font clearly escaped the publisher). If the 'description' returned is used by the application to present information to the user and to select fonts, then we have a problem as it should contain the style name so the user can read it, but it shouldn't have the style name as a constraint on the selection. Perhaps those two notions could be separated somehow? -keith -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 228 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/attachments/20050307/e813d23b/attachment.pgp
