On 2008/03/05 20:43 (GMT+0100) Nicolas Mailhot apparently typed: > Le mercredi 05 mars 2008 à 14:25 -0500, Felix Miata a écrit : >> Watch the Novell bug's resolution, then consider following it up with >> something similar in Fedora's bugzilla and/or manually doing whatever is >> required to fix the Novell bug. > The Novell's bug is asking to imitate Mandriva and change an existing > font file to workaround an application bug. When I wrote that I wasn't aware of what Mandriva did to produce a fontconfig providable font by the name Nimbus Sans L Condensed. > This does not scale you'd > need to change the family of all the popular in-the-wild condensed fonts > (assuming their license allow it) to make condensed selection by family > name work. Retrofitting is obviously no solution, but stopping future hemorrhaging by including an alias in future fontconfig releases seems reasonable to me. >> Another good long-term solution might be if "condensed" could be another >> property added to font-variant in the CSS specs. >> http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-fonts/#font-variant > What would be the benefit over implementing the font-stretch property > already standardised by the w3c a few § under your link? Nimbus Sans L doesn't need "stretching". The font files already provide a condensed variant @ 75% width of the base called condensed. The font-subsystem, fontconfig in this case, apparently already knows about it, but there's apparently no means for common non-PS apps to call it. -- "Let us not love with words or in talk only. Let us love by what we do." 1 John 3:18 NLV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://mrmazda.no-ip.com/ _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
