Michael A. Peters wrote:
> The problem is that fake bold and italic are turned on in
> the /etc/fonts/fonts.conf file - and can not be turned off (as far as I
> can tell) without modifying that file. Since that file is not suppose to
> modified, there basically is not a proper way to disable them if you
> don't want them.
I don't have anything against creating
/etc/fonts/conf.d/artificial-embolden.conf. However, it seems that the
system administrator can simply create the following
/etc/fonts/local.conf file:
<match target="font">
<!-- check to see if the font is just regular -->
<test name="weight" compare="less_eq">
<int>100</int>
</test>
<!-- check to see if the pattern requests bold -->
<test target="pattern" name="weight" compare="more_eq">
<int>200</int>
</test>
<!-- set the embolden flag -->
<edit name="embolden" mode="assign">
<bool>false</bool>
</edit>
</match>
and similarly for italics.
pat
