On Mon, 2005-03-07 at 13:39 -0800, Keith Packard wrote: > 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. Perhaps the name PangoFontDescription is confusing. It doesn't describe a font (or face), rather it is a description of the needs of an application to Pango. So, there would never be a reason to include informative information in it. > > (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... I think, when I looked at it before, what is provided by fontconfig-2.3 should be sufficient to provide the API I want. Regards, Owen
