Around 16 o'clock on Mar 7, Owen Taylor wrote: > The logic follows, yes. I'd rather not have to explain it to my users > that way :-) I'm less concerned about the logical complexity than the outright impossibility of modifying a selected face with a different slant or weight. If every font description includes a normative style name, then you would want to eliminate any API accepting a description which sets the subordinate style selector values. It seems like the descriptor would need an informative style set by the system and a normative style selected by the user. > (needs extension to handle localized names ... > get_face_name_for_language() likely) If you come up with a useful abstraction which you think could live in Fontconfig, let me know. I'm not going to add (more) code which isn't actually useful... -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/a704210b/attachment.pgp