Wanted: to allow web authors to access Nimbus Sans L Condensed on Linux browsers, this being the only condensed sans font family installed on every Linux system. Solution 1: A distribution can hack the Nimbus Sans L Condensed fonts to have family "Nimbus Sans L Condensed", instead of "Nimbus Sans L" with style "Condensed". This is allowed by the licence. The solution is effective but ad hoc and it requires cooperation from all the distributions. Solution 2: Browsers can implement the font-stretch feature of css. No current browser does this and Firefox developers in particular seem to have no interest. A clean general solution, but unrealistic unless IE8 implements font-stretch, in which case the other browsers will follow. Solution 3: Create a fontconfig alias that would create a virtual font-family "Nimbus Sans L Condensed". Ad hoc, but easier to sell to distributions than hacked font files. I'd be grateful if someone familiar with fonts.conf syntax could provide a suitable alias definition. I know from experience that such alias definitions are non-trivial. See the thread I started here: http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/fontconfig/2006-November/002523.html Bob T. _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
