On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 03:02:04PM EDT, Behdad Esfahbod wrote: > What's the thing with "preferred"? I assume it adds flexibility, the possibility to switch off the family conversion on the fly, depending on the value of the boolean, although I don’t know how this could be done. I say "I assume" because I found a thread in the list’s archives where Keith Packard recommended this solution and I haven’t had the time to look into it further. Interestingly, just setting my desktop font to verdana 8pt. on a ubuntu 9.04 system, took care of having the hard-coded family=Arial,sans-serif converted to verdana, out of the box, so to speak. Since the ubuntu system is on the same hard drive as my "normal" debian lenny, I was able to take a look at the setup in /etc/fonts/ on that system, and I could not see anything really diffferent from that on debian lenny. Because of this and other reasons, such as the fact that I don't see ubuntu making changes to the system configuration because one particular happens to favor verdana 8pt., and since there is nothing that looks like a ~/.fontconfig file in my home directory, I suspect that gconf may have something to do with it: the ubuntu system runs the gnome desktop, while I am content to stick with a barebones Window Manager on "lenny". But I will have to boot into that system to investigate further, which is not convenient at this point. Obviously the first thing I'll do will be to run an fc_match. > What you want is something like: > > <match target="pattern"> > <test name="family"> > <string>sans-serif</string> > </test> > <edit name="family" mode="prepend_first" binding="strong"> > <string>Verdana</string> > </edit> > </match> > > Does that not work? It should, and is probably quite sufficient for my needs :-) Thank you for your comments. CJ PS. This is unrelated and OT to this list, but what would be a suitable mailing list or newsgroup to ask questions about unicode fonts and how to set up xterm for a pleasant unicode experience? _______________________________________________ Fontconfig mailing list Fontconfig@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/fontconfig
